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Business Tough At Tokyo Disney

The Tokyo Disneyland theme park would normally get 70,000 visitors per day. But the park has been closed since the March 11 quake and tsunami. The closure has had a deleterious effect on cabbies, hotels, restaurants, and shopping centers, which sustained little damage from the natural disaster that closed the park and its sister Tokyo Disney Sea. The properties, among the most popular theme parks in the world, attracted over 25.3 million visitors in the 12 months ending March 31. Though the parks suffered negligible physical damage from the quakes, issues with power and tourism from the disaster have shuttered operations there.

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