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...beach, especially if you're an overworked salaryman with little leisure time to spare? But the weather can also be unpredictable, the waves petulant and uneven, the flotsam yucky. Now those who don't want to risk a less than perfect holiday can frolic at the Seagaia complex in Miyazaki, on the Japanese island of Kyushu, 930 miles south of Tokyo. The ocean that surges and rolls within it, chlorinated and free of salt, has a clearly defined width of 462 ft. and washes a shoreline 280 ft. long, composed of 600 tons of crushed, polished pebbles, all under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to the Great Indoors | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...conditions and cut hours in the office 9.5% by 1996. The enforcement of leisure time, however, is likely to leave many Japanese puzzled. In a recent survey of Japanese, more than 40% said they wouldn't know what to do with themselves if they had a month-long vacation. Seagaia, like an enormous indoor ski slope just outside Tokyo that opened two weeks ago, plans to profit by showing them how easy it is to enjoy themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to the Great Indoors | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

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