YAMAGUCHI After making a New York Times’ top travel list on Jan. 9, officials here hope to start seeing more tourists from abroad this year despite one disappointment for visitors.
NAGATO, Yamaguchi Prefecture Angered by an election poster, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s supporters threw their support behind the incumbent mayor here and led him to rout a candidate backed by the ruling coalition parties and a former rival of Abe.
Oil giant Idemitsu Kosan Co. will close one of its group company’s refineries and slash gasoline production by about 10 percent in anticipation of declining demand for fossil fuels.