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Runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport reopens a week after fatal collision

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TOKYO — Tokyo’s Haneda airport is almost back to its normal operation Monday as it reopened the runway a week after a fatal collision between a Japan Airlines airliner and a coast guard aircraft seen to have been caused by human error. The collision occurred Tuesday evening when JAL Flight 516 carrying 379 passengers and … Read more

100-year-old ginkgo timber might get the axe beneath disputed plan for Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien park

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TOKYO — Miho Nakashima stood in a two-piece bathing swimsuit in Tokyo on Sunday subsequent to a 100-year-old gingko tree, her physique painted head-to-toe in inexperienced leaves and brown branches. Her message was clear, and she or he repeated it standing on the coronary heart of the Jingu Gaien park space, its sanctity threatened by … Read more