TOKYO -- Popular tourist destinations helped lift Japan's official land prices by 1.2% as tracked on Jan. 1 for a fourth straight annual increase.
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Japan's land prices climb for fourth year, aided by tourism
Increase slows in big cities while residential prices elsewhere turn up
Condominiums sit at the foot of a mountain known for skiing in Kutchan, Hokkaido Prefecture. The town's land prices grew the fastest in Japan thanks to an influx of overseas skiers.
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