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Mulboyne wrote:
The foreign ministry has employed boy band Arashi for a series of commercials aimed at attracting greater numbers of foreign tourists.
Ganma wrote:I can see this might work within Asia, where pretty boys are all the rage. Not so much for the rest of the world. But then China is the big ticket for J tourism so it could be the best celeb choice.
FG Lurker wrote:Yeah, cause boy bands and young actors never develop a crazy following of all ages in the west...
Ganma wrote:J boy bands haven't had any success in the west to my knowledge. The other way around, sure. J girls do better. E.g. Puffy in the US.
cujojpn wrote:And Pufffy is a one-off I dont think of any other J musicians that have had a following in the US.
IparryU wrote:perhaps that japan says that the radiation has had some positive effects on their people for example, the above boy band, they now have an increased penis size of + 5 inches
Mulboyne wrote:[YThq]ldr7wiluLE4[/YThq]
Travel to Japan is easy today - it's just 32 hours or a day and one-third from the U.S. mainland ...
Your client can see this in the new freedom of the women ...
Yokohammer wrote:Yep. I didn't manage to get over here in 1950 when the article was written (er ... wasn't actually born until a few years after that), but when I did travel to Japan from Oz with the ol' man for the first time in '67 I remember having to make stopovers in Papua New Guinea and Hong Kong, at least. Hong Kong was a layover, so it took a couple of days, even by air.
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Reminds me of arriving in Oz in the early '70s...Dublin (after a 4-hour drive from Galway)-London-Bahrain (overnight stay)-Singapore (overnight stay)-Darwin-Sydney-Melbourne....I think I left as an infant and arrived as I came of age.
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Reminds me of arriving in Oz in the early '70s...Dublin (after a 4-hour drive from Galway)-London-Bahrain (overnight stay)-Singapore (overnight stay)-Darwin-Sydney-Melbourne....I think I left as an infant and arrived as I came of age.
CrankyBastard wrote:I first set foot ashore here as a wide eyed deck cadet on a rust bucket of a tramp ship in 1958. First port of call Moji, they were still coal bunkering ships by hand, coolie style on the wharf we were alongside.
Greji wrote:Since I am so much younger than Cranky and despise anything that floats and doesn't have wings...
Russell wrote:Yep, the MD-160 Lun-class ekranoplan. Seems the Russian Federation plans to resume building them in 2012.
Greji wrote:Since I am so much younger than Cranky and despise anything that floats and doesn't have wings, I waited until after the end of his wooden sailing ships jidai and choose to arrive in Japan by air on my first trip. It was aboard that internationally renown carrier, "Saturn Airlines" and took somewhere around 33 hours with pertinent tourist stops and such must see spots as Wake Island and Kwajalein, shooing gooney birds off the runways to fly. Finally landed in Tokyo to begin a long and successful career of carousing....
Cranky, that is where you old farts differ from us young kids! Leftovers to us is just another name for Hors D'Oeuvre's. We'll handle any sand crabs you old salts wanna leave us....When I landed at Haneda Air Station, you could find them flopping all over up and down the beach, just waiting to be serviced properly.....CrankyBastard wrote:Just as I figured, you young Johnny-come-latelys had an easy trip!
We pathfinders left just enough carousing leftovers for you to keep YBF from becoming extinct.
dimwit wrote:Judging by what I have seen in Matsuyama (walking my dog around Dogo Onsen), I think that tourists are almost back up to the 2010 levels, after a being way down during the spring and early summer. I suspect the same thing is true all over western Japan.
Mulboyne wrote:Nationwide, July tourist numbers were down 36.1% from last year. A new worry for the industry is the stronger yen.
Source (Japanese)
chokonen888 wrote:Stronger yen + Japanese overpricing, factored with the insanely expensive fuel surcharge to fly here makes coming to Japan retarded expensive vacation option.
chokonen888 wrote:Stronger yen + Japanese overpricing, factored with the insanely expensive fuel surcharge to fly here makes coming to Japan retarded expensive vacation option.
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