Japan seeks to rebuild its battered tourism industry

Tourists from China stand outside a Laox Co shop in the Akihabara district of Tokyo. Chinese shoppers in Akihabara outspend all other overseas shoppers, according to the local tourism body, parting with more than four times more cash than their US counterparts. The district's stores are hiring Mandarin and Cantonese speakers and putting up two-meter tall billboards to bolster tourism. Tomohiro Ohsumi / Bloomberg