By YOSHITO ASAKURA/ Staff Writer
February 22, 2023 at 09:30 JST
Yasushi Takakura, president of Toyotomi Sangyo Co., holds blocks of extra super duralumin retrieved from a dismantled Self-Defense Forces aircraft as he poses for a photo in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, on Dec. 14. (Yoshito Asakura)
About 10 years ago, Yasushi Takakura, who ran a metal recycling company, watched a TV program that showed decommissioned airplanes lined up on land in a U.S. desert called an “aircraft boneyard.” [Read More]
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