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One Japanese farmer’s 50-year protest continues to prevent airport expansion

Japan’s major international gateway and one of the world’s busiest airports, Narita, was built on farmland expropriated amid violent conflict over 50 years ago. One farmer has refused to leave, forcing the airport to scale back its originally planned five runways to two, affecting hundreds of millions of passengers. Lucy Craft spoke to the farmer, Takao Shito. Source Read More »