The Japanese government will create a Tourism Agency in October as an affiliated body to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and have it play the leading role in promoting tourism. It will be the first governmental agency to be established since the Financial Services Agency was created in 2000.
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Cheap long-haul services have the potential to revolutionise longdistance travel in the same way that budget airlines have turned domestic travel upside …
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And the Russian Air Force, with a single bomber, has made another heroic flight either across Japan's airspace or across its border. …
… operated by other airlines, or people traveling on a group tour ticket can?t use the system. Passengers who prefer to use travel agents … But such programs fall short of what is available in Japan. Chris McGinnis, editor of Expedia Travel Trendwatch …
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Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 15: Buyers from more than 50 countries are expected to participate in the fifth Kerala Travel Mart, India’s largest buyer-seller mart to be organised in Kochi from September 20 to 23.
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The Momote Shiki ritual is carried out on Seijin-no-Hi, Coming of Age Day though the ritual predates the holiday by centuries. Momote - means “hundred hands.” The ritual is a bit of Shinto mathematics: ten archers at a time shoot two …
The number of Japanese tourists visiting Kenya has dropped sharply over the past year, according to Kenyan tourism officials. Just 13,000 Japanese tourists visited the East African country in 2007 compared with some 15,000 the previous year, representing a 12 percent drop, the officials said.
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March 14 is White Day, a holiday created in Japan in 1980. Tradition dictates that the men who received gifts on Valentine’s Day must return the favor and give something in return to the ladies. The return gift is also called a “thirds …
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Festivals are held to celebrate plum blossoms, the first signs of spring.
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A 3-day pass for unlimited use of JR Kyushu trains in northern Kyushu went on sale in January 2008.
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