Foreign investors making inroads to hot spring resorts

Foreign investors making inroads to hot spring resorts

KOFU, Japan - Chinese tourists have dinner at a banquet room at a Japanese-style inn run by a Chinese businessman (L) who uses the Japanese name Ryunosuke Hayashi, in the Isawa hot spring resort area in Fuefuki, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Jan. 27, 2011.

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