Martian2
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I guess this is what makes the difference
It's a slower process, but the outcome is the same in the West. The important difference between China and the West is that China doesn't wait "decades" to make an important decision in the national interest.
Narita to extend runway, but which way? | The Japan Times Online
"Apr 20, 2005 ... Holdout landowners in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, refuse to sell their property off the ... whose parallel taxiway also has to accommodate private land. ... Airport officials, hoping to extend the 2180-meter runway to 2500 ..."
Japanese Landowners Forced to Sell Land for Narita Expansion - SkyscraperCity
"Japan landowners must sell to airport
By KOZO MIZOGUCHI
28 June 2006
TOKYO (AP) - A group of landowners who for decades blocked the development of Tokyo's Narita International Airport were ordered by a Japanese court on Wednesday to sell their property.
The Chiba District Court ordered the 12 landowners to sell six plots totaling 1,116 square yards -- less than a quarter acre -- to airport authorities, said court spokesman Naoto Shikano.
The landowners are part of a left wing group called the Kitahara faction, which spearheaded fierce opposition to the authorities' appropriation of land.
Protests and violent clashes over the airport -- linked to the violent revolutionary politics of the 1960s and 70s -- led to delays in its opening and expansion and resulted in six deaths.
In Wednesday's ruling, judge Makoto Hasegawa asked Narita International Corp. to pay a total of 2.55 million yen ($22,000) to compensate the landowners, Shikano said.
The airport is located 40 miles northeast of Tokyo, and opened in 1978 with a single runway.
A second runway was added in April 2002 -- ahead of the soccer World Cup co-hosted by Japan and South Korea in June that year -- to handle mostly short flights between Tokyo and other Asian cities.
Airport officials have repeatedly pressed the government to allow a longer runway to accommodate jumbo jets, after dropping plans for a 8,202-foot runway when farmers and other residents refused to give up land needed for the project.
The airport authority filed suit in 2002 to purchase the tract from the landowners over protests from opponents who complained about noise and the government's appropriation of land without permission.
A court last year ordered the owners of two other lots to sell their property to the airport authority, allowing the company to begin the long-delayed extension to its second runway.
The project should be completed by 2010 and will cost 33 billion yen ($284 million)."
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