If the plan is approved, the Japan Tourism Agency says it could begin signing up visitors by next April, a spokesman said.
Seven months after much of its north-east coast was destroyed by a tsunami, Japan is to step up its campaign to revive tourism by offering free return flights to 10,000 foreign visitors.
Applicants will be asked to outline their travel plans and answer questions about post-disaster tourism in Japan, recently named favourite long-haul country by readers of the Guardian and Observer in the newspapers' annual travel awards.
Tourism to Japan dropped dramatically after the 11 March disaster, which left almost 20,000 people dead or missing and triggered the worst nuclear accident in the country's history.
In April, international visitor numbers stood at 296,000, according to the Japan national tourism agency [JNTO], down 63% on 2010; by August they had recovered to 547,000, down 32% on last year.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/12/japan-bid-revive-tourism-fukushima?newsfeed=true
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394516,00.asp
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