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  25.jpg - In 2005, the airport of Kochi was renamed "Ryoma Airport", after the historical person of Sakamoto Ryoma, a "national hero" from the time of the Meiji Restoration (1868). In Japan, the naming of airports after persons is extremely uncommon and this was the first case. However, the name is only a semi-official nickname for the airport, which still is listed as Kochi Airport in flight plans...  
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In 2005, the airport of Kochi was renamed "Ryoma Airport", after the historical person of Sakamoto Ryoma, a "national hero" from the time of the Meiji Restoration (1868). In Japan, the naming of airports after persons is extremely uncommon and this was the first case. However, the name is only a semi-official nickname for the airport, which still is listed as Kochi Airport in flight plans...
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