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An Ill-Starred Anniversary for Japan’s Narita Airport

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May 28, 2008
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The protest towers are long gone and so too are the gray riot police vans that used to be parked along the arrival and departure lanes, the policemen lolling around with their helmets and plastic shields close at hand, all of which had made Narita International Airport look like an armed camp.

But the scars of what has been called Japan’s Thirty Years Wa…

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