Indeed, Yokota's remoteness and lack of adequate transportation links might even make travelers nostalgic for Narita.

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That is anathema to the Americans, who fear that any talk of time limits at Nago could trigger demands for similar deadlines at the Misawa and Yokota air bases and the Yokosuka naval station in mainland Japan.

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The crews arrived four days after the 24-foot tsunami had swept the plant, and in the ensuing 10 weeks they logged 507 flight hours crisscrossing the skies over Japan in a Beechcraft C-12 twin engine turboprop out of nearby Yokota Air Base.

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Dr Yokota (and also Drs Lundeen and Steinberg) managed to observe them without looking, as it were, by not gathering enough information from any one interaction to draw a conclusion, and then pooling these partial results so that the total became meaningful.

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