Theme park goes bankrupt with 229 billion yen in debt

TOKYO (AP) - In the largest bankruptcy of a Japanese amusement park, a complex modeled on a medieval Dutch town filed for court protection Wednesday with 229 billion yen (US$1.94 billion) in debt. 

Outfitted with dozens of restaurants and scattered with Dutch employees dressed in traditional garb, Huis Ten Bosch attracted 4.25 million visitors at its peak in 1996, according to private credit research agency Teikoku Databank.