Animation/Robot Exhibition Proposed in Japan

Yahoo.com reports that the Japan Business Federation proposed June 21, 2004, holding an animation and robot exhibition to help boost the number of foreign tourists to Japan to 10 million by 2010.

The nation's largest business lobby, known as Nippon Keidanren, recommended Japan host an animation and robot exhibition as early as 2009 — between the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the 2010 World Exposition in Shanghai — to introduce Japanese pop culture and state-of-the-art technologies to the world.

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