KAGOSHIMA — Since Yaku Island was placed on the World Heritage list 16 years ago, tourism has been booming.
Some 390,000 tourists flocked to the 500-sq.-km island south of Kagoshima Prefecture in fiscal 2008, up from an estimated 210,000 back in 1993.
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