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No other travel document opens as many doors around the world as Japan’s passport just edges the number-tow nation.
Could this be as accurate as horoscopes, blood-typing and how we make a fist? How could anything match their exact precision?
When Japanese travelers go abroad, they’ll be taking some of the country’s most famous and beautiful examples of woodblock print artwork with them.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is considering changing the design of the pages of Japanese passports in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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