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TOKYO (AFP) - Free umbrellas for tourists - what could go wrong? Pretty much everything, as it turns out.
Officials at the local chamber of commerce in a northern Japanese city have been left red faced after hundreds of umbrellas left for visitors to use while they were in town vanished.
The mass brolly theft - about 900 disappeared - has left historic port city Hakodate's feel-good tourism scheme in tatters, and triggered an angry response from some local taxpayers, who slammed it as a waste of money.
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/ea...rce=Facebook&link_time=1465469539#xtor=CS1-10
Officials at the local chamber of commerce in a northern Japanese city have been left red faced after hundreds of umbrellas left for visitors to use while they were in town vanished.
The mass brolly theft - about 900 disappeared - has left historic port city Hakodate's feel-good tourism scheme in tatters, and triggered an angry response from some local taxpayers, who slammed it as a waste of money.
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/ea...rce=Facebook&link_time=1465469539#xtor=CS1-10