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Lone farmer ends blockade of airport expansion
Tokyo farmers protest leader Kakichi Ogawa, 72, agrees to sell his eight acre former residence and exit the Narita expansion conflict ending three decades of dispute. Officials say negotiations continue with other landowners and a second and third runway still far off. Narita opened in 1978 with one runway and handled about 24 million travelers in 1994.
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