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Also catching on is Japan's eBay, Rakuten. Cell-phone sales account for 34% of its transactions. "Cell-phone companies realized the potential, so we too started taking cell-phone commerce seriously," says spokeswoman Kuniko Narita. "Our turnover increased drastically...
...what's next? "People have started buying big things," says Narita. "You can even buy a helicopter or a $3.2 million tanzanite gem on a cell phone...
...suspects in connection with the sabotage, including Masashi Kamata, 32, the reputed leader of Chukaku-ha, or Middle Core Faction, an ultraleftist group that organized violent anti-U.S. demonstrations in the '60s. In recent years it has made headlines with its attacks on the new international airport at Narita...
...security at most major airports has been beefed up since the TWA hijacking. In Tokyo, all approaches to Narita Airport are monitored, and each arriving car, passenger and possession is scrutinized. Nevertheless, local radicals made two attempts to disrupt flight operations last year. Even if airports could be converted into safety vacuums, says Richard Lally, director of security for the Air Transport Association of America, "the threat is always changing. It could be sabotage or hijacking or assault." It is that chilling uncertainty that places a potentially deadly weapon in the hands of determined terrorists. --By John Moody. Reported...
...will never know just how close Japan Air Lines Flight 441 came to disaster on Oct. 31, when Soviet fighters scrambled as it strayed near restricted airspace over Sakhalin Island. Last week airline officials revealed that the JAL 747, carrying 132 people, took off at 12:14 p.m. from Narita Airport outside Tokyo and headed for Paris by way of Moscow. Shortly before 1 p.m., Captain Morihiko Nishioka, 39, spotted dense clouds ahead. Anticipating turbulence, he switched off the automatic inertial navigational system to guide the jet manually around the mass. Nishioka claims that he then forgot to return...