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Canada welcomes Japan's literary tourists; The fascination that 'Anne of Green Gables' still has for its Japanese readers is attracting tourists and settlers to Prince Edward Island.(World)

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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 19990804
Author:Walker, Ruth

The most effective ambassador that Canada has ever sent abroad may be a red-haired girl in pigtails who never really existed - except in the imagination.

Anne of Green Gables, the orphaned heroine of Lucy Maud Montgomery's books, has delighted readers around the world since 1908. And Anne's passion for Prince Edward Island - an inviting land of gently rolling countryside where lady-slippers bloom abundantly - draws thousands of tourists to the island.

Notably, the Japanese.

Their numbers may be modest - less than 1 percent of total visitors, says Don Cudmore, ...

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Canada welcomes Japan's literary tourists; The fascination that 'Anne of Green Gables' still has for its Japanese readers is attracting tourists and settlers to Prince Edward Island.(World)

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