Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection

Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection

TOKYO, Japan - The headquarters building of Japan Airlines Corp. is silhouetted against the early evening sky in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Jan. 19, 2010. Japan's top air carrier filed for bankruptcy protection the same day with group liabilities totaling over 2 trillion yen in the biggest nonfinancial corporate failure in Japan's postwar history.

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