When I searched an airline ticket flying to Japan on the internet, I hardly found them because I needed to go there during traditional summer holidays, called "Obon," meaning the season when spirits and ancesters can come their home to see their family. I found some awefully expensive tickets to Japan which I did not want to spend that much because of the season. Althouigh I found that only China airline had cheap ticket, I did not want to buy them from that airline because I have never taken beforre.
Moreover, I was affraid of that something bad might be happening.
Unfortunately it happened throughout the news. I was sorry for my sisters who were going to be happy with someone specail, and my family who expected to go to my maternal grand mother's house to see my uncle's first-spirit visiting about that I made not to go to see them, but I was right...
Even if the airline was not exactly fly to Osaka or Tokyo from San Francisco, the China airline that I sensed to avoid taking in this particular year had a huge accident at another part in Japan. Sigh.
Citation:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aip9oZbN_FYc&refer=japan
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