In a statement issued on Friday, Osamu Shinobe, ANA's chief executive, said the airline remained committed to the aircraft.
Japan's top government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura, said Mr Tanaka had stepped down due to ill health.
Earlier, new Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura announced the line-up of the new Cabinet, with Kocher Gemba named as foreign minister.
Green fluorescent protein was first discovered by Osamu Shimomura four decades ago.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said that representatives from the defence ministry had told US officials that "the incident is completely unacceptable".
Suzuki's boss, Osamu Suzuki, has filed for divorce and is taking VW to arbitration to force it to sell its 19.9% stake in Suzuki.
The parties at war: the make-believe nations of Star and Uran in Karubeki Sekai ("The World That Is Coming"), a futuristic epic by the late Japanese cartoonist Tezuka Osamu.
Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien were responsible for the discovery of a substance called green fluorescent protein, and its development into an important tool of modern biology.
"The only thing that is safe for newspapers to write about is the Yomiuri Giants baseball team, because 60% of the Japanese public supports them, " says Osamu Shimogiri, editor of the Nikkan Gendai, a racy tabloid that did publish the so-called Ombudsman list.
The airlines are also acutely aware of the damage such incidences can cause their reputation, as made clear by ANA's vice-president Osamu Shinobe and executive Hiroyuki Ito's actions as they bowed in shame to apologise to passengers and their family members for causing them concern.
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