Iwate eyeing use of 'Ingress' game to promote tourism

Iwate eyeing use of 'Ingress' game to promote tourism

MORIOKA, Japan - Google Inc.'s "Ingress" free location-based turf war game, which the Iwate prefectural government is considering using to promote tourism, appears on a tablet screen in this undated photo.

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