Narita Airport - Japan

[mixedgrain]

The legal principle of "eminent domain" ("compulsory purchase" - UK, IRL, NZ; "compulsory acquisition" - OZ) is common in pretty much all Western legal systems, allowing governments to take over land for public purposes. Otherwise all those subway, road widening and motorway projects would never get off the ground and we'd all be stuck in traffic - our transport systems would be totally inadequate for modern economies. For the greater good, pay them VERY well but get them out.

[bigbuggie5]

Is this why they are expanding the newer part of Haneda?

[jimmyjmv]

Rice farms were before airports!!!. They have the right to posses what is theirs!!!.

[Cyrus255]

@jimmyjmv So you are against Airplanes? You believe humans should never fly?

All airports are built on SOMEONE'S land. This is a small issue for Japan.

A BIGGER issue is the US army bases on Okinawa (where US soldiers gang raped a japanese child)

[Jaiyeson]

@Cyrus255

Actually a BIGGER issue is the Child porn industry in Japan, the human slave trading that goes on in japan (run by the over 150,000 yakuza at last count) etc etc. 4 soliders raped a girl which is horrible.. but you feel that is a big issue compared to all the children who are raped on camera in japan? Or the huge pedophillia industry there? LOL for goodness sake it is legal to sleep with 13 year olds in japan. Get your priorites straight before you try and bash on the USA.

[UKfightback]

Bizarre as it might sound, alot of the imagery from the Ghibli film Pompoko is based on this protest

[ThatGypsyBoy]

good for those farmers - bulldozing peoples lives away in the name of progress is inhumane

[DJkentuckykid]

2 japanese girls was assault in jamaica by jamaican police and one of them was 8 months 2 weeks pregnant and her panty was tear off in the police station by 4 jamaican police and fling to the ground 2 times and detained after and they told her they were going to deport her and she is an illegal allien the jamaican tv medias are covering up for the police corruption cause we an one hour dvd as proof and they want to broadcast it

[Sirmau]

what does your story got to do with this video?

[PyrimidKingJindai]

@DJkentuckykid does this relate to this topic.......

[metalmilitia1890]

Ill be sure to think of them next time I go back to Japan. I really love it there and its alot more peaceful than it is in the states. The first time I went to visit my relatives over there was totally awesome. When I came back to LA, I was depressed.

[evilfishytank]

Eminent domain.

[pdevadder]

My o kah sama (mother-in-law) lives nearby and she does not complain in the least. Every time I fly to Japan, I think of the local farmers but I don't give damn about their narrow-mindedness. This is typical NIMBY mentality. Tokyo has to have a major international airport and it has to be located somewhere.

Last but not least: Please!!! Spare us this aggravating Na-REE-ta. It's Narita, with a short i and no stress on the i. Japanese is not English. THERE ARE NO STRESSES IN JAPANESE. Thanks

[nikulaus]

Its a problem with native english speakers in general. They fail to speak any other language without a ridiculous accent :)

[CPlasmaGuns]

@pdevadder On the other hand, if you add stress to a Japanese word it does not make it wrong per-say, just like adding pitch or tone to an English word doesn't make it wrong. And if people pronounced foreign words perfectly in the middle of speaking English, it would be hard for people who only know English to catch the sound and memorize it.

[CrazyLassi]

go farmers!!!

[mistyken]

gee...the noise would be intolerable for those who live under those conditions.......

[sodasoap]

i love narita it's peaceful there

[dan892k7]

Why don't they offer the farmers a lot of money to get a house somewhere by the sea? The airport would earn the money back in weeks anyway. The farmers are just being arsey though to be fair.

[celia222]

No matter where an airport is built, it comes at a great expense to everybody. But, airports like Narita provide great convenience to not only Japanese travelers but to travelers around the world. It's too bad how the airport and the indigenous people of Narita couldn't come to an agreement decades ago. Now the natives are just pawns of the leftwing anti-government groups. They would never move out, even if their wishes were honored, the mob will not let them take the deal.

[lolvks]

I dont think all that air pollution is going to help the farm much...

[OliDeu]

I WISH I COULD SPOT THERE !!

Soon Air France will fly the A380 to Haneda. In 2010.

[Coventelite]

lol, yeah, living in that house in between taxiways would be so awesome, plus to go get to the airport would take 2 minutes

[muthatrukka24]

haneda? you mean narita. haneda is only domestic traffic

[mctmct1987]

Of course there are always people who see the bright sight a farmhouse in the middle of a runway :D:D

[aircarl1]

I have flown into Narita many times from San Jose, and each time getting into downtown Tokyo is a PAIN IN THE ASS.Narita is so damn far from the city centar plus an expensive and LONG bus ride, I wish they expanded Haneda airport and allow more international flights. It is such a breeze just to hop on the monorail for a quick trip into Tokyo!It's also a very nice terminal now after being refurbished.

[Gororine]

In the next year, the 4th runway is to complete, and 30,000 international flights a year are allowed to land and take off in Haneda Airport, but this expansion is insufficient. It is impossible to enlarge furthermore due to incursion of fishery and sea routes in Tokyo Bay, and the airspace is limited because of Yokota Rapcon (radar approach control by US airforce.) Retroceding the rapcon to Japan, the number of flights will increase. In principle, civil aircraft cannot fly in the rapcon.

[HuangRose]

Haha i saw that house. I was there 5 days before this video was posted xD

[Mairivera1024]

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[ipts5i]

The government should effect a compromise--extend the 2'nd runway (i.e. 16L/34R) but forgo the construction of the third runway as well as have a plausible relocation plan for those farmers that must be displaced for the extension of the second runway. I argue this because runway 16L/34R is ridiculously short and, in the interests of safety, needs lengthening. Then Narita can compete with other mega airports like VHHH, etc. But considering the farmers' plight, there should be NO 3rd runway.

[popura0025]

でも空港は必要なわけだしなぁ

食いもん作るならどこでも出来るじゃないか

うちの田舎の実家も市内の道路拡張で取られたけど

仕方ないわな

道が狭くて渋滞が凄かったし

特に反対したとかは聞かんかったけど

[aKurikku]

私は、空港の同意は必要ありません。

[akeffo]

Godzilla will crush the government of Japan.

[iron1215]

Just give them a boat load of money.

[Gosling3]

It is not matter of money. It was matter of how authority handle them and aldo their life style....they want keep their land which they inherit from ancestors.

[LeeroyFan101]

Progress or civil rights hmmmm

[UminoNuko]

こいつらのバックは、サヨクだしな。

どこから運動資金が出ているのやらｗ

[zegzegtata]

متشكر جدا

[miblopng]

成田の人たち、かわいそう！！

[miblopng]

Instead of pushing off the rightful land owners just for the airport to be extended, why can't the Japanese government just make another airport the same waay they made Kansai International airport...by building it on the sea! ,...Otherwise...if it is a MUST that they extend the current Narita airport then they better think up smart relocation plans for the landowners who own the land the airport stands on.

[CyborgNinja7]

The cost of Kansai is immense and it is slowly sinking into the sea.

[xingfenzhen]

no wonder they had to build on in the ocean

[pinecry]

what a fighting spirit, they stood through times, even noise pollution!!

[grubelsucht]

How different from China's hideous treatment of its citizens in similar circumstance! At least the Japanese families here have freedom, and I hope they win this dispute against avariacious corporations, which are merely autocrats of a different stripe. Everyone in the future will experience similar conflict. Will social justice prevail?

[pidos847]

STOP THE NEW WORLD ORDER!!!!!!!!!

[sfriendshipz]

lol, this goes to show that human rights are being practiced in japan... all go by legal procedure

[wonderfulskirt]

dont they get any compensation? in europe you get a fortune for selling your land to someone that wants to build something. I would give the land for the airport. I would feel happy to contribute. I guess now is the problem cause they protested and they dont wish to give up cause they would look too weak in the society.

[AneleIsAKoi]

That explains why all the planes out of Japan were in a line (I think?)!It was kinda slow.

There's a video of my takeoff from Narita airport on my account ^_^

I never knew all this about it O_O

[Terramax]

I personally agree that times change, and there's really no point in fighting what really is a losing battle.

But then again, if they really do enjoy living there, then they should never be forced to sell their land.

[yellowman88]

I would never want to live near an airport. It's so noisy!

[PinoAnti666]

Fuck! is this japan! it looks like china is geting ahed of them...^-^

[sinsin114]

fuck allah

[ciaramc29]

There is no guarantee that a man made island would work in Tokyo. They would have to deal with the fishermen too if they could build it.

With Osaka they had to build the island as they couldn't expand the other airport in the city. Unfortunately there is room around Narita.

[yokoyogi]

What kind of a crack pot are you!!!!!

Put that crack pipe down and shut up with your bullshit!!! Who wants to go to the kingdom of god when your so called god allows millions of innocent people to be killed and starve to death every fuckin year!!! Get a life and a brain!!

[yington]

I would like to just say, I have totally and utterly demolished your ludicrous argument.

[anongos]

Ummm.... okkaaayyyyy..... Three questions: What does that have to do with this video? And why is there a support Ron Paul 2008 for Freedom at the end? Is this all just for politics?

[AneleIsAKoi]

This has absolutely no relation to the video.

[Naniwa00]

成田は東京ではない。千葉県にある

[GomerPial]

watch?v=1UEOZGFzPas

[raven1234]

Why aren't they being relocated to somewhere else better?? The government can just offer them with land and money. Afterall, it is inevitable that airports must be expanded to counter the demand of the fast growing aviation business.

[gunzcontrol]

How government is connected? Narita airport is a private business.

[raven1234]

er, i see. Then I guess the government shouldn't just watch. Afterall, the wellness of the air transportation directly impact the wellness of Tokyo itself. A win-win situation shouldn't be impossible if the government decides to interfere.

[anongos]

Thing is, they don't want to lose the land they are on right now. They say that they were there first and have been for generations. You know, sentimental value and such. Although, I strongly agree with your point. I just wanted to point that out.

[raven1234]

what have to be done, have to be done, right?? I am sure "a lot of money" will still be the best solution.

[janet928]

Just lock a few dozen of them up and throw away the key. The rest of them would then sing a diffrent tune I think!

[gunzcontrol]

well, this is why people invented low and democracy to prevent such things happening.

[tropfenweise]

Do they know how the economy of Narita is

depending on the Airport?　I know how,because

I live in Narita.

So farmers should stop making

a silly protest!

[codexbiohazard]

So in the past I can understand, but now only eight people are fucking it up for every one else. Thats fucked up, there is no reason for them to stay there...jobs are being lost due to there selfishness. I do not feel for these people one bit.

[crazycatfguy]

May sound extreme but I am sure you have heard of the slippery slope. No one in the US is safe from losing their house to a strip mall at the whim of the city council.

[codexbiohazard]

This is no strip mall, its a major transportation hub that flays goods and people in and out of that era. Think of it like this if you will. Imagen, it a lot like a ship yard that can not be built due to some "mule of a fuck" who can not swallow there pride and move, thus screwing the local economy and thus screwing the people as a whole who live and work in the area. Remember why it was built in the first place...

[crazycatfguy]

The slippery slope. Today an airport next year strip malls.

[giftraum]

TODAY an airport, tomorrow a mindport.

[gunzcontrol]

The situation with lack of arable land in Japan is extreme. They could have spent more money to install it on an artificial island like they did it in Osaka.

[KineticRic]

Now if only us Americans could organize, get off our lazy ass's and fight for whats right in this country.

Good for you people of Narita ! You are true patriots.

[kij3v]

Interesting.

But I'm sure they will once accept the offers coming from the Narita Airport officials. To live in a such noisy environment, hats down.

[mhj212]

interesting, thanks

[ACTORnSCREENWRITER]

Narita is the airport my parents went to on their way to America from Afghanistan. My family almost decided to stay there