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I came across this sentence:

> 来年は、踊り子三百人をフランスに招いて、阿波踊りの魅力をもっと **広めて** いくようです。

Stripping the sentence to basic sentence structure:

> 魅力を **広めて** いく。

How can that be grammatically correct?

As "広める" is transitive with an obvious object, there must be an _actor_ as the
subject? I don't see one. You can sort of hide the _actor_ using passive
voice. This seems grammatically correct to me:

> 魅力が **広められて** いる。

Or, isn't the intransitive verb also an option:

> 魅力が **広まって** い _る_ 。

In English, the given sentence sounds to me like:

> ??? is widening the appeal of the dance.

But, who is widening the appeal? Don't you have to say:

> The appeal of the dance is widening.
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"広める" instead of "広まる" or "広められる" in this context?
You're right, there has to be an actor and there is. The same actor as for 招く
earlier in the sentence.

> 阿波踊りとは、徳島県を発祥とする盆踊りです。日本三大盆踊りで、日本の伝統芸能の一つとして、日本全国からたくさんの観客が訪れます。
> その阿波踊りが、フランスのパリで初めて開催されました。このイベントは、日本在住のフランス人ジャーナリストが阿波踊りを自分の国に届けたい思いで、１０年かけて実らせました。
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> パリでは、大人から子供まで阿波踊りの魅力を味わうことができ、会場は熱気に包まれたそうです。
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> **来年は、踊り子３００人をフランスに招いて、阿波踊りの魅力をもっと広めていくようです。**
> ([Source](http://newsinslowjapanese.com/2015/10/12/japanese-
> listening-166-awa-odori-in-paris/))

Here's the whole context I found. From the earlier context, the unspoken actor
in the final sentence must be the event organisers (who else would do these
actions?).

So, "It appears they [the event organisers] will bring 300 dancers to France
next year and spread the appeal of awa-odori even more."
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