Japan Skin Divers Eye Tourists as Depopulation Hurts Growth At the Sea People restaurant in Shima, a hamlet on Japan's eastern coast, sea-diver Machiyo Yamashita wants a piece of a tourism industry dominated by the cities that sapped her town's vitality by luring away its youth. "I want to cook and serve customers abalones I caught myself an hour ago," said Yamashita, 64, over a March 9 lunch of shellfish, sea lettuce and bowl of seaweed soup, all ...
April 9, 2014 - Bloomberg via Yahoo! Finance