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Disaster to destination: Fukushima snow wows tourists

Visitors from Taiwan gather on the shores of Lake Inawashiro in Bandai Town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. (Photo: AFP)

FUKUSHIMA, Japan: Tourist Benjamin Tuffy’s family spent their winter holidays in picture-perfect snow in Japan. But they weren’t at the country’s famed ski resorts in Hokkaido or Nagano — they picked Fukushima.

It’s a choice officials hope is becoming increasingly popular as they market the region’s snow resorts and try to shed the stigma that lingers more than a decade after the 2011 nuclear disaster.

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