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- <text id=90TT2681>
- <title>
- Oct. 08, 1990: My (Ghostwritten) Summer Vacation
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 08, 1990 Do We Care About Our Kids?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 23
- My (Ghostwritten) Summer Vacation
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> The Japan Travel Bureau, the country's largest tourist
- agency, thinks of everything--including an excuse for
- customers to make a trip. No one appreciates that more than
- legislators from Saitama Prefecture, who take annual "fact
- finding" trips to Europe. Besides arranging every aspect of
- those luxurious boondoggles, the bureau provides junketeers with
- a detailed memorandum to submit along with their expense
- accounts. It drones on for 60 eye-glazing pages and is
- numbingly titled A Report on European Urban Policy and the State
- of Local Administrative Affairs. To give the journal a thin
- veneer of originality, names and dates are changed each year.
- Yet every report begins "It is impossible to find the right
- words to describe such a priceless experience..." and
- concludes, "Seeing is believing."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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