OSAKA -- With a surge of international visitors, Japanese hotels, airports and communities popular with tourists are being forced to contend with a new nuisance: suitcases discarded by travelers.
Travelers buy new ones to fit purchases, leaving old ones in hotel rooms, airports and elsewhere

An abandoned suitcase on an Osaka street. (Photo by Yuto Yamane)
OSAKA -- With a surge of international visitors, Japanese hotels, airports and communities popular with tourists are being forced to contend with a new nuisance: suitcases discarded by travelers.