Word: narita
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earlier controversies--the downhill event, the charge card issue, the flame continually being extinguished during its run through southern Japan, even the recent leftist mortar shell attack at Narita International Airport--are but the pre-Olympic warm-up. As the world turns to Nagano today, Japan will face its largest test...
...women, those most likely to lead a revolution, tend to see their male peers as dull corporate drones. Women, meanwhile, with comparatively freer schedules, have more time to cultivate their interests. As a result, there is a growing perception gap between the sexes. A much discussed phenomenon known as Narita divorce illustrates the problem: upon arriving back home at Tokyo's Narita Airport, fresh from their honeymoons, many worldly young women, shocked to have discovered the narrow-mindedness and dependency of their new bridegrooms, promptly dump them...
...office camping trip on Perfect Strangers, and that laugh riot -- a berserk gun-wielding busboy -- on Sugar and Spice. Even when Suzanne and Julia of Designing Women jetted off on vacation to Japan, probably the world's safest nation, their luggage was promptly stolen in Tokyo's Narita Airport. The thieves, of course, belonged to a criminal class that now exists only on shows determined not to offend anyone's sensibilities: American hippies...