Tokyo's Haneda airport holds 70th anniversary event

Tokyo's Haneda airport holds 70th anniversary event

TOKYO, Japan - Staff at Tokyo's Haneda airport blow out birthday candles in a ceremony at the airport to mark its 70th anniversary Aug. 24. Haneda airport opened in 1931 in Tokyo's Ota Ward, and the first flight from the airport carried 6,000 bell and pine crickets for Japanese then living in Dalian, China.

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