Tsunami-hit Japan city taps home-stay tourism to move forward

Sakae Suzuki (far R), an oyster farmer in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Nguyen Manh Duc (2nd from R), Mitsuko Suzuki (C) and two other Vietnamese students undertaking a home-stay at the Suzukis' house, pose while prying open oyster shells at a workspace in the city stricken by the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster, on Feb. 16, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo