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...bigger than the 777 and 80% bigger than the Airbus 330 and A340, and Boeing has ditched window covers for electronic dimming controls. Boeing also promises a smoother ride with less turbulence. And during a press conference Sunday morning, Mineo Yamamoto, president and CEO of All Nippon Airways, which will be the first to fly the 787 next May, said that the company also worked with Boeing and Japanese toilet maker TOTO in the development of a bidet-type toilet to be "the first airline to refresh the parts that other airlines cannot reach." Go Japan...
...procession of the 47 client-airline CEOs with representative flight stewards, from All Nippon to Kenya Airways, kicked off the event. Boeing CEO Jim McNerney then spoke of the advantages of the new jetliner and introduced Brokaw, who called the 787 "a rock star of the future" and announced the 677 orders. The pixilated numbers appeared in story-high brilliance on each side of the stage and a roar overtook the building. The managers and workers of Boeing's supply partners who collaborated to develop the 787 joined the event via satellite from six locations, including Fuji, Kawasaki and Mitsubishi...
...Narita International Airport with a forged Dominican passport and then deported to China, Jong Nam has apparently fallen from favor. That didn't diminish the interest of the media, especially in Japan. "North Korea is a No. 1 concern for us," says Tsuyoshi Ikeda, a news director for Nippon Television, puffing a cigarette in the Mandarin's lobby. "So it's important that we watch them...
...North Korea is a number one concern for us," says Tsuyoshi Ikeda, a news director for Nippon Television, puffing on a cigarette in the Mandarin's lobby. "So it's important that we watch them...
...tile wall, "his" place looks identical to those around it. We ring the doorbell, but no one shows. A security guard gives us a dirty look, so we buzz off. Our options dwindling, we decide to call off our search. Perhaps we should have followed the lead of Nippon Television's Norihisa Kabaya, whom we had run into earlier that morning. He was patrolling a boardwalk near the black sand of Hac Sa beach, video camera rolling while his translator waved a blown-up photograph of the smiling Kim Jong Nam. "Have you seen this man?" the translator asked...