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AIRPORT

EDITORIALS
Oct 27, 2013
Soon under new management
Under a new law, Japan's central and local governments may entrust the collection of landing fees and the management of airport commercial operations to private companies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2013
ANA lands 11 Haneda slots; JAL is given five
The transport ministry said Wednesday that All Nippon Airways Co. will receive 11 slots in the expanded international flight schedule next March at Tokyo's Haneda airport while Japan Airlines Co. will get five.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2013
Narita to retire inter-terminal buses, use walkways
Narita International Airport on Friday announced it will put new moving walkways into service on Sept. 27 to help travelers more quickly reach the departure and arrival concourses in an annex to Terminal 2.
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2013
Haneda consistently world's best for on-time departures
Tokyo's Haneda has kept its top spot for five straight months to July among the world's busiest airports for on-time departure performance, according to a report released by the U.S. website FlightStats.com providing global flight and airport information.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 7, 2013
Hashimoto to Abe: Fly Ospreys at Yao
Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) co-leader Toru Hashimoto proposed to the central government Thursday that some MV-22 Osprey flight drills be conducted at Yao Airport in Osaka Prefecture.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 5, 2013
Yao mayor says no to hosting Ospreys
The mayor of Yao, Osaka Prefecture, rejects a proposal by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto to host training flights involving U.S. Osprey aircraft.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 4, 2013
Hashimoto reckons Yao Airport could be Honshu candidate site for Osprey drills
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said Monday he will propose to the central government that an airport just outside the city of Osaka host part of the training exercises for U.S. Osprey transport aircraft.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2013
Haneda rebounds to No. 4 in world
Tokyo's Haneda airport was rated the world's fourth-busiest in 2012, regaining a position it last held in 2008, according to data from Airport Council International, an organization of global airport operators.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 15, 2013
Rampant airport insecurity
Under the U.S. notion of airport security, authorities would do better dressing passengers in hospital gowns and putting them to sleep for the flight.
EDITORIALS
May 3, 2011
Mental care for children
Many schools in areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami have started the new school year. Some schools, though, have no choice except to begin classes in early May because school buildings were damaged or were being used as temporary shelters for disaster survivors.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Apr 28, 2008
Bush's brutal war stirs memories of Vietnam
When the news came that Daniel Ellsberg led a rally in Concord, New Hampshire, to help impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, I happened to be looking at the entries for the year 1967 in an almanac.

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