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Drone aerial photo service

A drone flies over the island of Shodoshima in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa on Feb. 28, 2025, to take aerial pictures of the island's landscape popular among tourists. Major travel agency JTB and partners demonstrated the flight for the media as they are set to begin Japan's first drone aerial photo service dubbed "Skypix" in August.

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Drone aerial photo service

A drone flies over the island of Shodoshima in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa on Feb. 28, 2025, to take aerial pictures of the island's landscape popular among tourists. Major travel agency JTB and partners demonstrated the flight for the media as they are set to begin Japan's first drone aerial photo service dubbed "Skypix" in August.

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Travel agency opens tourist information center in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Two tourists seek information from a staff member (R) at travel agency JTB Corp.'s foreign visitor information center in Osaka, western Japan, on Dec. 10, 2014, the day it opened. The facility has English- and Chinese-speaking staff and can also handle other languages via interpretation using tablet computers.

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JTB, domestic airline in partnership

NAGOYA, Japan - Fuji Dream Airlines Co. Vice Chairman Takuro Uchiyama (2nd from L) shakes hands with a JTB Corp. representative in Nagoya, central Japan, on Nov. 26, 2014, after announcing their alliance in online travel services.

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Photo book on Japan with English translation

TOKYO, Japan - Photography book "Excellent Japan-A Scenic Portfolio-" published by JTB Publishing Inc. is seen in this undated photo. The book covering various tourism spots and information comes with a translation in English.

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JTB invests in Spring Airlines

TOKYO, Japan - Hiromi Tagawa (L front), president of Tokyo-based travel agency JTB Corp., and Wang Zhenghua, chairman of Chinese budget carrier Spring Airlines Co., shake hands after their press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2014. JTB has invested in Spring Airlines to boost travel between Japan and China.

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Hot air balloon crash in Egypt

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Imaeda (front), president of JTB Grand Tours & Services Inc., bows at the outset of a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2013. A hot air balloon carrying foreign tourists exploded in mid-air and fell 300 meters earlier the same day in Luxor, southern Egypt. Nineteen of the 21 foreign tourists aboard died, according to reports. The company said four Japanese had taken part in the balloon ride and a Japanese couple had been confirmed dead, while the fate of the other couple was being determined.

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Event held to celebrate 1,000th issue of JTB timetable

SAITAMA, Japan - The cover pages of train timetables issued in Japan by major travel agency JTB Group and its predecessor since 1925 are displayed at the Railway Museum in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on April 20. The 1,000th issue of the JTB timetable was published the same day, drawing attention from train-spotters in the country.

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Boom returns to Atami, thanks to rising fuel prices

ATAMI, Japan - Sun Beach at Atami spa town in the Izu Peninsula is crowded with holidaymakers in a photo taken Aug. 5. According to travel agent JTB, the occupancy rate at inns and hotels in Atami rose 19 percent in July from a year earlier. Travel analysts believe high fuel costs have prompted many Japanese to give up overseas summer vacations or long-distance domestic travel. Atami, an hour or so by express train from Tokyo, is the nearest spa summer resort for Tokyoites.

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JTB planning Zeppelin NT airship cruises over Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A Zeppelin NT, the world's largest airship, cruises over Tokyo on Oct. 23. JTB Corp. said the same day it will offer cruises over Tokyo aboard a Zeppelin NT between Nov. 23 and Jan. 5.

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JTB planning Zeppelin NT airship cruises over Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A Zeppelin NT, the world's largest airship, flies past the Roppongi Hills building in Tokyo on Oct. 23. JTB Corp. said the same day it will offer cruises over Tokyo aboard a Zeppelin NT between Nov. 23 and Jan. 5.

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Japanese woman dies in bus accident in China

OSAKA, Japan - Kozo Suzuki (R), president of JTB Western Japan Corp., speaks to the media in Osaka late Dec. 28 after a sightseeing bus carrying a JTB Western Japan tourist group overturned in Yunnan, China, killing a 78-year-old Japanese woman and injuring more than 10 other fellow travelers.

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Police raid JTB over suspected copyright infringement

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of travel agency JTB Corp. bow in a gesture of apology at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 13 after police searched the Tokyo headquarters of the company and 16 other places on suspicion that the company used two photos in travel pamphlets without permission from the photographer who took them.

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