Japan woos visitors with free tours, fine dining
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Just the 30th favorite nation to visit, Japan hopes to boost tourism â and the economy.
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When visitors outstay (and you outspend) their welcome.
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Eight foreign diplomats in North Korea  have been given permission to visit the site of a mysterious  blast Thursday, Japan's Kyodo news agency said on Wednesday.
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Tokyo has played host to an exhibition showcasing the latest attractions for gamers.
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The local search site lets you navigate through cities with businesses paying to show tours of the insides of the buildings.
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Japan tunes in to witness creature's birth.
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For package holiday-makers, the options are straightforward, in theory. Tour reps at hotels help contact families and organise flights home.
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Pop star Michael Jackson's  less wealthy fans got a chance to meet him at a "fan  appreciation" event in Tokyo on Friday, a day after he posed  for photos with those willing to pay 400,000 yen ($3,400) for  the privilege.
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Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara is a gracious host, settling comfortably into a white leather chair and patiently listening to a question from a visitor.
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Japan will start lending to foreign visitors personal digital assitants (PDAs) with travel information and translation services in a test program on ways to promote tourism.
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Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe,   laid out on Friday his vision of a "Beautiful Country" that can   be proud of its traditions and culture while also being   respected -- and loved -- by the world.
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Japan's prime minister came to office last September with plenty in his favor &#151; political pedigree, the blessing of a popular and powerful predecessor, and name recognition as a fighter for Japanese kidnapped by North Korea.
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More than 300 events in the fields of culture, economics and science will be held throughout the nation in 2005 and 2006 in honor of the Year of Germany in Japan.
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The automaker and other Japanese firms make their shares more appealing to average citizens.
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Raising kids, cooking meals and chatting  to ordinary people -- Empress Michiko&#39;s sweeping changes to  Japan&#39;s ultra-conservative imperial family has made her an  endearing figure to the masses.
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The Web can help travelers create customized walking tours.
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TOKYO -- On a recent business trip to Colorado, Japan's agriculture minister, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, popped into an inviting Japanese restaurant in the Denver suburbs with a hankering for a taste of back home. What he found instead was something he considered a high culinary crime -- sushi served on...