They say May 20 is Anniversary of Opening Ports. One is Tokyo Bay. In 1941 both Shibaura (芝浦) and Takeshiba (竹芝) Piers were completed and designated to open as trading ports with foreign countries. Before that the trading of Tokyo depended on the Yokohama Port.
On May 20, 1978, Shin Tokyo Kokusai Kuko(新東京国際空港), the Narita International Airport was opened. It took 12 years to build the airport since the council decision of constructing the port in Sanriduka, Chiba(千葉県三里塚) in 1966, because there were strong objections from the local people.
The two Japanese big ports in Tokyo area were opened in the same day. What a coincidence!
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