69 Released Japanese Are Flown to Tokyo
Reuters
TOKYO —
The first group of Japanese freed by Iraq arrived back in Tokyo on Sunday night aboard a government-chartered flight.
The Japan Air Lines jet carrying 68 women and children and one sick man released by Baghdad landed at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport.
The Japanese refugees arrived to an emotional reunion with relatives who began gathering at the airport in the afternoon, hours before the flight was due to arrive.
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