The Japan Tourism Agency’s plan to offer 10,000 free round-trip tickets to prominent foreign Web users has been scuttled by the Finance Ministry, which rejected its ¥1.18 billion budget request for fiscal 2012.
JTA official Masatoshi Tsukasaki apologized for raising high hopes over the image-boosting project. “We are deeply sorry,” the international tourism promotion official said.
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