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For more than two years, Fumio Takenaka has been looking forward to a foreign beach holiday with her family. With the coronavirus pandemic waning and resort destinations reopening across the Pacific, she started making plans for a week in Hawaii — only to be horrified at the prices she was quoted.
Rising fuel costs have made Japanese airline flights more expensive while travel firms push up their prices in an attempt to claw back some of the income they lost during the forced shutdowns…
