Today was a holiday because one of the national holidays fell on Sunday, the following day was supposed to be an extra holiday, but Monday and Tuesday were also holidays, therefore today became the extra holiday for Sunday. We call this furikae kyujitsu(振替休日), literally means transferred holiday.
Since this is the last day of the Golden Week, many people came back from foreign countries. In Narita Airport about 46,000 people returned only today. There the number of people on quarantine duty was increased to 280 about three times as usual to carry out checking the health of passengers of 38 flights from North America while they are still on board their planes because of the recent epidemic of the new H1N1 flu known as swine flu.
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