Rugby: Organizing chief says World Cup to shape tourism to Japan

With seven months until the opening of the Rugby World Cup, organizing committee CEO Akira Shimazu said Thursday the number of foreign fans set to attend the quadrennial tournament has far "exceeded his expectations."Speaking at the Foreign Press Center Japan in Tokyo, he said the World Cup will see about 500,000 tickets sold to foreign fans who will travel throughout Japan, including Kamaishi in the country's northeast -- a city that hopes to showcase its recovery from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.While most foreign arrivals last year were from Asian countries -- with only 7 percent fro…READ FULL ARTICLE