Word: tachikawa
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Tachikawa Airport the flyers were met by a squad of police, headed by a highly indignant chief of foreign police. What did they mean by flying into Japan without permission? Well, they thought it would be all right. Would they please show on the map what route they had taken? Certainly. . . . Indignation rose to fury. They had flown over Tsugaru Strait, which is fortified; the naval post at Ominato; the concealed fortifications near Tokyo Bay. They had landed for a moment on the new airport at Haneda, not yet opened to traffic-all forbidden areas. And they had taken photographs...