Tokyo's Usual Shopping Crowds Thin As Nuclear Fears Rise
by Tomoko A. Hosaka
TOKYO (AP) - Tokyo's famous shopping mecca usually teems at lunchtime with tourists, office workers and fashionistas. Not lately.
In the upscale Ginza district as elsewhere in the Japanese capital public apprehension over a brewing nuclear disaster is draining streets and stores of the crowds that normally define this dynamic, densely packed city.
Shops, if they are open, struggle to draw customers. Some of the area's brand-name draws Coach, Gucci, Swarovski, Zara, H&M stood dark.
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