Word: narita
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everything was set for the long-delayed opening-five years late-of Japan's sparkling $2.4 billion New Tokyo International Airport at Narita, 40 miles northeast of the capital. The 114 shops and restaurants and nine banks in the terminal complex were polished and ready for business. The 32 airlines that would use the new facility prepared to switch 150 flights a day from older, overtaxed Haneda airport across Tokyo Bay. In a nation where tradition and superstition still count as much as technology, a taian, or auspicious day, had even been determined for the dedication last week...
Unfortunately for Narita, a butsumetsu, or really unlucky day, hit the airport last week before the ceremonies could be held. A demonstration by 8,000 radical students and farmers who have agitated against Narita ever since construction began in 1967 erupted into an orgy of destruction. The 14,000 police spread across the terminal were caught by surprise as helmeted students in steel-plated trucks battered down the terminal gates. Tossing fire bombs and swinging metal rods, demonstrators swarmed wildly through the sprawling airport complex...
...Institute of Business Administration and Management; Kazutoyo Komatsu, Trio Electronics, Inc.; Tatsuya Komatsu, Simul International, Inc.; Masao Kunihiro, Kokusai Shoka College; Teiji Makikawa, Fujitsu Ltd.; Isao Makino, Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd.; Jiro Mayekawa, Teijin Ltd.; Yohei Mimura, Mitsubishi Corp.; Masafumi Misu, Hitachi, Ltd.; Rihei Nagano, Kubota, Ltd.; Yoshio Narita, Yamaichi Securities Co., Ltd.; Yoshiro Neo, Sumitomo Shoji Kaisha, Ltd.; Saburo Oyama, Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.; Kazuo Saitoh, Sharp Corp.; Keizo Saji, Suntory Ltd.; Yutaka Sugi, Nippon Kogaku K.K.; Tomejiro Tanaka, Marubeni Corp.; Kazuo Ueda, Minolta Camera, Ltd.; Hiroko Yokoyama, Simul International, Inc.; Noboru Yoshii, Sony Corp...
...opposition Socialist and Communist parties meanwhile celebrated striking gains. Socialist Party Chairman Tomomi Narita announced that a new wave in Japanese politics had finally arrived. At Communist Party headquarters, thunderous banzais echoed from the hall...
Last week, in the bloodiest of a long series of skirmishes over the building of Tokyo's new jetport at Narita, some 40 miles southeast of the capital, that code was violently broken. Nearly 5,000 riot police were on hand to help airport officials expropriate three parcels of farm land that were holding up the last stage of construction. The farmers were grimly determined to resist seizure of their ancestral tracts. So too were some 3,000 student activists...