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The Japanese government has come up with a plan to double the number of Japanese travelers abroad to about 10 million in 1991, in a bid to help reduce the nation`s huge trade surplus. Under the Transport Ministry`s ”10 Million Plan,” Japanese travelers would spend an estimated $11 billion overseas in 1991, nearly doubling the $5.8 billion spent abroad last year. The ministry plans to promote school excursions abroad and consider increasing the tax-free three days of annual company-sponsored travel for employees to four days, Japanese news reports said. A record 5.52 million Japanese went abroad in 1986, or about 4 percent of Japan`s population, far smaller than in Western countries, the reports said.
