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Travel agents campaigning to boost Japanese going overseas

Travel agents are launching a fresh campaign to increase the number of Japanese travelers overseas to 20 million in 2010 as the number dropped in 2007 for the first time in four years to about 17.29 million. The number of foreign visitors to Japan... ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Mon, Jun 09 2008

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