
All Nippon Airways is being accused of racism after it released a commercial featuring the classic “gaijin” of Japanese imagination – a Caucasian with a gigantic proboscis and mop of blonde hair.
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The USA has told its airlines to file their flight-plans with the Chinese military when flying through its new air defence zone, after even Japan had the spine to tell its airlines to ignore China.
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China has declared the skies over the Senkaku isles and much of the waters surrounding Okinawa are Chinese airspace and that it will feel free to shoot down planes which fail to obey its instructions in the zone.
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The latest exhibition of the Japanese army’s moe arsenal saw 2 “ita-heli” sporting moe girls on display to the general public – only the latest of Camp Kisarazu’s efforts to impress the world with its ability to paint pretty girls on the side of their old choppers.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 7, 2013 07:08 JST
- Tags: Aeroplanes, Events, Hatsune Miku, Hokkaido, Marketing, Otaku, Sapporo, Tourism, Winter



Hatsune Miku’s winter incarnation has once again taken over New Chitose Airport, Japan’s third busiest, in some force, much to the delight of her fans.
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Those who fantasise of having a sexy cabin attendant of their own but do not feel like chancing their freedom on the supreme competence of the Japanese police can fortunately have a go at saucy cabin attendant Yoko in blue and red versions instead, both ready to take off in February 2013.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Oct 15, 2012 16:21 JST
- Tags: Aeroplanes, Chiba, Cosplay, Events, Itasha, JSDF, Military, Moe, Video Gallery



Fans of cute girls and military hardware alike have been delighted by the recent display of base mascot Akane Kisarazu and her ita-Cobra attack helicopter as part of Camp Kisarazu’s 40th air festival.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Oct 12, 2012 23:01 JST
- Tags: Aeroplanes, Bizarre, Chikan, Courts, Crime, Hyogo, Law, Police, Tokyo, Voyeurism

Police have been forced to release a man who admitted taking upskirt photos of an airline stewardess on his flight after it transpired they could not work out which prefecture he was flying over when the crime took place.
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Anti-American protesters in Okinawa have been flying kites and balloons around a US airbase in protest against the deployment of the supposedly accident-prone V-22 Osprey to the islands, in what critics suspect is an effort to deliberately induce an accident to better prove their point.
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Hatsune Miku fans are rejoicing at the sight of the world’s first ita-airport, in the form of Miku’s descent upon Hokkaido’s New Chitose Airport – including a full-size Miku statue which has otaku reaching for either their wallets or their cameras…
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Homura’s popularity amongst the armed forces of the world only seems to be growing – this time she seems to have found her way onto the side of a JSDF attack helicopter.
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Top Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific has been embroiled in a high altitude sex scandal after one of its pilots inadvertently leaked photographs of his stewardess girlfriend fellating him in the cockpit and posing salaciously about the plane.
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