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Abstract:International tourists to Japan, or "inbound tourists," have attracted considerable attention in the Japanese tourism sector. In particular, tourists from the Asian region, China in particular, are recognized increasingly as important target groups. To accommodate the demands of foreign tourists, the tourism industry must investigate the satisfaction and preferences of, as well as challenges encountered by both tourists and gastronomy sectors. By comparing the responses of tourists with those in the service sector, this study identified future tasks for inbound tourism. This study focused on tourists from Hong Kong and Taiwan.In a parallel questionnaire, employees of restaurants for international tourists in Kanazawa were interviewed. As second phase, results of the survey on tourists from Hong Kong and Taiwan were compared with results from other non-Asian tourists. A significant difference was observed for "communication between staff (language barrier)" among the two groups. In addition, "Wi-Fi Internet access" became clear that a degree of satisfaction is the lowest of all the survey items regardless of nationality.

Fagopyrum homotropicum Ohnishi is a self-pollinating wild buckwheat species indigenous to eastern Tibet and the Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces of China. It is useful breeding material for shifting cultivated buckwheat (F. esculentum ssp. esculentum Moench) from out-crossing to self-pollinating. Despite its importance as a genetic resource in buckwheat breeding, the genetic variation of F. homotropicum is poorly understood. In this study, we investigated the genetic variation and phylogenetic relationships of the diploid and tetraploid forms of F. homotropicum based on the nucleotide sequences of a nuclear gene, AGAMOUS (AG). Neighbor-joining analysis revealed that representative individuals clustered into three large groups (Group I, II and III). Each group contained diploid and tetraploid forms of F. homotropicum. We identified tetraploid plants that had two diverged AG sequences; one belonging to Group I and the other belonging to Group II, or one belonging to Group II and the other belonging to Group III. These results suggest that the tetraploid form originated from at least two hybridization events between deeply differentiated diploids. The results also imply that the genetic diversity contributed by tetraploidization of differentiated diploids may have allowed the distribution range of F. homotropicum to expand to the northern areas of China.