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People arrive at Narita International Airport in Chiba prefecture on Oct. 11. (Photo by Mayumi Tsumita)

RURIKA IMAHASHI, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- An elderly woman sat impatiently in her wheelchair in the arrival lobby of Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Tuesday morning. When her elder sister came in from a flight from Seoul, they hugged for the first time in three years in a long tearful embrace.

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