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Critics decry Kagoshima’s free shinkansen plan for tourists as ‘unfair’
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By The Japanist TeamPrefectural officials have defended the plan to fully subsidize one-way fares for foreign tourists as a necessary bet on inbound demand.
Prefectural officials have defended the plan to fully subsidize one-way fares for foreign tourists as a necessary bet on inbound demand.
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