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Trip purpose: To attend the 2022 FIFA World Cup from Nov. 26 – Dec. 3

TOKYO, Japan — The recovery in outbound tourism from Japan lags behind that of other countries, but there is growing optimism that a gradual resumption of travel is finally under way and that more sun-seekers may be opting for a vacation in the Marianas Islands in the coming months.

A lot of numbers are talked about in relation to the Pacific region and the U.S. military’s plans for the islands.

The largest of these figures relate to the funding planned to be spent on construction - $1.2 billion to $2 billion a year, with $1.2 billion forecast to be spent in fiscal 2023 and $2 billion in 2028.

BY OYAOL NGIRAIRIKL and BY MAUREEN N. MARATITA
Journal Staff

Route 3 in Dededo leads to Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz and is an arterial road in Guam’s largest village. 

The area is ripe for development but looks as if little has changed since a surge of buyers invested in the area in 2015.

There are reasons why.

Remotely operated vehicles or drones offer multiple possibilities for the world of entertainment, and leisure, or be put to use in a variety of commercial and industrial fields.

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BY MAUREEN N. MARATITA Journal Staff Specific measures to attract tourists were some of the ideas shared by the Korean Air representative to increase Guam’s competitiveness as a tourism product at the For Guam 2022...

BY OYAOL NGIRAIRIKL Journal Staff A new bill aims to compensate ancestral landowners for property taken from their families for federal or local government use. Gov. Lourdes A. Leon Guerrero submitted to the 36th Guam...

BY MARK RABAGO Saipan Correspondent I FADANG, Saipan — Northern Marianas Airways showed off its Boeing 757-200 aircraft on Oct. 20 at the Francisco M. Palacios-Saipan International Airport with the promise that the venture is...