May in Japan
2011年04月29日
In mainland Japan cherry blossom season ended.
Mountains are covered by green new leaves of trees, and confortable and beautiful May comes.
May of this year is, though, felt far from confortablely.
Damages of great tsumai and nuclear disaster haven’t waned yet.
Our office is in Kyoto.
In a usual cherry blossom season, Kyoto invites many foreigners.
But this spring I heard fewer than usual foreign tongues spoken around
sightseeing places.
Great earthquake and nuclear disaster made so many foreign people go away
and kept them away from Japan.
The number of sightseers from abroad has decreased drastically, and cities and towns famous for their sightseeing assets get severe economic damages.
A task to get foreigners back into Japan again hasn’t begun yet.
It will take a long time to recover its reliability from outside world.
So we continue issuing our newsletter for foreigners.
It is our task!
Lastly, May in Japan is really beautiful and confortable season!
(Oda Mitsuo, the president of Asia no Tofu)