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On this day, 20 May 1978, 15,000 demonstrators attempted to blockade the Narita airport in Japan on the day of its official opening. A march of children around the site began, followed by a procession of disabled protesters in wheelchairs. The demonstrators were met by 13,000 riot police, and violent clashes broke out as police fired water cannons and protesters responded with petrol bombs. One group of helmeted radicals attempted to crash through a gate with flaming vehicles, and a group of left-wing students cut a cable at a traffic control centre near Tokyo, halting all air traffic in Japan for several hours. Protesters were angry at the development displacing farmers.
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