Tourist industry worries as Osaka hit hard by typhoon

Osaka's tourism has been hit hard as last week's typhoon ripped through western Japan causing a partial closure and reduced flights at Kansai International Airport.Typhoon Jebi caused one runway at Japan's third-largest airport to be flooded, making one of its two terminals inoperable, while the sole bridge linking the airport on a man-made island in Osaka Bay to the mainland was damaged as a tanker ripped from its mooring smashed into it.Although both domestic and international flights have partially resumed, only 10 percent of international flights were operating as of Tuesday.While clean…READ FULL ARTICLE