On April 7 I had two business colleagues arrive at KIX Osaka at around 5 p.m. -- they were confronted with an immigration line that was so long it went all the way back to the escalator bringing arriving people to the immigration hall! It took them 1 hour... ...full story at Japan Times
from Japan Times on Sun, Apr 20 2008
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