The Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry has decided to go ahead with plans to build a fourth runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport and intends to ask the government for funds to begin construction work in fiscal 2003, government officials said Saturday.
The land ministry hopes to have the runway in operation by 2009. The expansion project will cost at least 800 billion yen in tax money.
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