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A tour of Haneda Airport

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The foreign stars of ATV’s regular sightseeing news segment get a behind-the-scenes look at Haneda Airport:

They are shown the following:

the airport’s Shinto shrine
a daycare center for the children of airport staff (with a very cool view)
the room in which airport employees answer phone calls and make airport-wide announcements (it’s not a machine voice)
Haneda’s new international terminal (scheduled to be completed next year)
a new runway (also scheduled to be completed next year)

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12 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - October 27, 2009 at 5:56 am

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firstpost

The voice of the one in the purple vest makes me want to dig my eardrums out with the nearest metal implement.

Weirdo

what’s wrong with it?

The Overthinker

Did I write this? I don’t remember this, or reading any of the comments….

Roppongi Health

May airports have chapels. I wonder how high will be takeoff and landing fees for such an expensive airport. Can they stay competitive ?
http://whatjapanthinks.com Ken Y-N

If there’s one thing more annoying than Japanese tarentos gasping in shock and surprise at the smallest thing (I recently heard へぇぇぇぇぇぇ～ when someone mentioned bread was made from wheat), it’s gaijin tarentos squeaking along like the natives.

Oh, and somebody ought to try this at Haneda:
http://www.queenhill.demon.co.uk/airspeak/air_speak.htm

The Overthinker

Seconded. I could only do that if I was on drugs.

The Overthinker

Oh, and brilliant bloody link.

Freeeeda

Wow that girl in purple is so annoying. She is such a NARCIST.
Why she does show off of her japanese language. Who care how u know the language girl keep educated as u interrupted the guider so many times with ur ridiculous BOAST.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh -_- Those kinda people make me really sad.

Why did the tv channel of japan did arrange that girl in purple that she thinks that is the smartest of the world or what.

>_<

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so disturbing when people wanna show off.
Keep that girl in purple away from the screen.

The Overthinker

Looks like a half, probably born and bred in Japan.

Although personally I’d prefer someone fluent in Japanese to someone who is barely literate in English.

Ajapa

Maybe, she is Sahel Rosa? According to Wikipedia, she is a Japanese citizen of Persian descent who was born in Iran and emigrated to Japan at the age of 8. She is quadrilingual and got a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from Tokai University. A war orphan of the Iran-Iraq War.

dc

I really don’t understand why you criticize her for her good command of Japanese.
I for one think it’s really great to see foreigners on TV doing the show from time to time. It breaks a bit this exaggerated xenophobic image which sticks to the Japanese people so badly. And it also shows that Foreigners can master Japanese.

LondonGaijin

terminal video – 0:42 = Sukebe!