NAGOYA (Kyodo) Tourism minister Seiji Maehara said Sunday the government will consider granting tourist visas to more individual travelers from China by easing requirements that have been viewed as a barrier to people-to-people exchanges between the two... ...full story at Japan Times
from Japan Times on Sun, Oct 18 2009
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