Manna from heaven? Shares tied to Japan's Nagasaki get Pope visit boost

Pope Francis waves as he arrives at Tocumen International airport for World Youth Day in Panama City, Panama January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese shares linked to the city of Nagasaki got an unlikely boost on Thursday after Pope Francis unveiled a plan to visit Japan, with media reporting Nagasaki, for centuries a centre of Christianity in Japan, would be on his itinerary.

Stock traders said the first Papal visit to Japan in almost four decades would be a big publicity boost and help attract tourists to the city, associated in the minds of many foreigners with a second U.S. atomic bomb attack in 1945.