The first extra flight from Jakarta brought relief and anxiety for some 300 evacuees arriving Monday morning at Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture.
The All Nippon Airways flight, which arrived at 7:30 a.m. -- 30 minutes ahead of schedule -- was the first from Jakarta to arrive after the Foreign Ministry recommended that Japanese nationals return from Indonesia.
"I am relieved that I'm back safely, but a riot or demonstration may occur (Wednesday), and I am worried about my husband," said Rumiko Arima, whose husband works for a Japanese manufacturer in Jakarta. She will stay with her parents in Shizuoka.