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Zac and Vanessa Arrive To Save Japanese Tourism

Step aside, Super World Travelers! Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens celebrated the Japanese premiere of "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" at Tokyo's Prince Hotel just days after arriving, like the Pitt-Jolie clan, at Narita International Airport.

Will all this celebrity publicity boost Japan's ailing tourism industry? The number of foreign visitors to the island plummeted 24 percent last December alone, despite a 0.1 percent increase for 2008 overall.

Locally, 2009 started with a bang as over 99 million people celebrated the New Year at Shinto shrines all over Japan, some undoubtedly to offer prayers for economic success this year. And a just-announced joint tourism initiative with Hong Kong should bolster flagging numbers later on in the year. But if Japan's looking for spokeskids, they could do worse than the Efron-Hudgens team. After all, if they're not employed by Disney any more, the kids might appreciate the work.

Related Stories:
· Number of foreign tourists visiting Japan plunges 24.1% in Dec [Japan Today]
· New Year pilgrims hit record in recession-hit Japan [Reuters via Yahoo!]
· Hong Kong, Japan launch tourism exchange year [China View]
· Japan coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: JustJared]

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Knox and Viv Jolie-Pitt Smile for the Cameras at Tokyo Airport

After much speculation about "Where are the twins?" Super World Travelers Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie showed off their newest team members, Knox and Vivienne, today at the Narita International Airport in Tokyo.

This is first time the world has seen the twins since their glam photo shoot a few weeks after they were born. It's a good thing too. We hear President Obama was just about to issue a search for them. (Star and Us Weekly magazines have very powerful lobbyists working for them.)

The twins were also assisted by their teammates--old man Maddox, savvy vet Zahara, rising phenom Pax and sophomore star Shiloh. If we did the math correctly, the Jolie-Pitt championship league travels with eight players. And it turns out, the team apparently likes to handle their own luggage.

"Our kids are always packing," [Angelina Jolie] told Entertainment Tonight. "They like to pack; it's a game in our house.

"It can get very hard trying to find 20 minutes to close your eyes if you've been up since four in the morning," Jolie said. "We travel so much, we never have to adjust. We change school time to four in the afternoon if we have to!"

We just hope that newcomers Knox and Viv can keep up with the two-a-days. After Japan, the family is set to land in Long Island in March for a few months.

Related Stories:
· Jolie-Pitt Family Arrives in Japan [Us Weekly]
· Super World Travelers [Jaunted]

[Photos via Us Weekly]