American lawyer Heather Reilly Powell had just checked in for her flight at Tokyo Narita International Airport when the magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck.

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Kim Jong-nam's path to power was derailed in May 2001, when he was arrested at Narita International Airport in Tokyo for traveling on a forged Dominican passport.

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Hitachi has earned enough trust to get trial installations at Narita International Airport and a Tokyo subway station this coming spring, but we have a hunch that some airport officials would demand a more thorough screening, no matter how much it's actually needed.

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