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CORRECTS TITLES - Japan Anime Tourism Association Chairman Yoshiyuki Tomino, right, speaks as Kadokawa Corp. Chairman and the association's Vice Chairman Tsuguhiko Kadokawa listens during a press conference to announce the establishment of the association in Tokyo, Friday, Sept. 16, 2016. Eighty-eight places in Japan are going to be designated "animation spots" to encourage tourism - the train station, school campus, rural shrine and other fairly everyday places where popular "manga" characters were depicted. Officials said Friday they will compile a travel route of 88 animation spots by December, including where manga and animation works took place, as well as the homes of manga artists and museums dedicated to their works. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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