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.
Fukushima’s ski industry was already struggling with warm winters and a decline in domestic visitors when a tsunami triggered the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
Officials…
