WORLD : Snow Slows Down Life in Tokyo
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TOKYO — Pollution, overcrowding and other ills of urban life may leave the residents of Japan’s capital unfazed, but it took just a few inches of snow today to delay tens of thousands on their appointed rounds.
The season’s first snowfall forced a two-hour closure of Tokyo’s international airport. Commuter and inner-city trains ran late. And 23 people got hurt in falls on slippery streets, the Kyodo News Service reported.
All the breakdowns and confusion stemmed from a snowfall that left only three to five inches around the area that sometimes goes through winter with no snow.
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