Mr. Ogawa hardly expected that his journey would take him 14 hours, including a four-hour wait for a cab at the Osaka airport, and a hazardous drive down cracked roads and over quake-split bridges.

For that guarantee to work, Japan must go further and guarantee takeoff and landing rights at its crowded Tokyo and Osaka airports.

I assume when you say "Osaka airport" you really mean Kansai International Airport, or KIX, which is the large modern airport in the...

Would it be feasible for me to go straight from the Osaka airport to the bullet train to Tokyo?

Lilla and I met our group at the Osaka airport: 4 men, 13 women, mostly artists, mostly past 50.

The strangers I had met at the Osaka airport had turned into good-hearted, curious, entertaining friends.

On the long train ride back to the Osaka airport, Steve had, as usual, the last and defining word.

"You look at the Fairchild deal, the resistance from Tokyo to let Americans in to bid on projects like the new Osaka airport, the question over computer chips - these things are all in the backs of people's minds," said one trader at a major New York bank.

A test shipment of 960 pieces of sushi that has been held in storage at Osaka airport since it arrived Wednesday could be released next week if it passes its sanitary inspection, Mr. Matsumoto said.

Somehow, the Osaka airport escaped devastation, and Mitchell flew out 12 hours later.