Foreign visitors shun Japan

Foreign visitors shun Japan

KANSAI AIRPORT, Japan - A foreigner walks with a suitcase through a lobby of Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture on April 6, 2011. Immigration officials said the same day the number of foreigners arriving at Kansai airport from March 18 to 23 after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami stood around 1,700 a day, less than half of the daily average before the disaster.

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