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The Guardian - UK
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Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy

Japan Airlines: Japan Airlines launches a Boeing 747 jumbo jet in 1970
1970: Japan Airlines launches a Boeing 747 jumbo jet
Photograph: Sankei Archive/Getty Images
Japan Airlines: One of Japan Airlines' shareholders displays a shirt
1999: A shareholder displays a shirt demanding that the media expose supposed wrongdoings by the airline prior to the company's annual shareholders meeting in Tokyo. In 1998, JAL's reputation was tarnished after revelations that JAL funnelled money to 'sokaiya' corporate racketeers, apparently to prevent them from disrupting shareholders meetings
Photograph: Katsumi Kasahara/AP
Japan Airlines: February 2002: Flight attendants of Asian airlines distribute leaflets
February 2002: Flight attendants of Asian airlines distribute leaflets to passersby in a joint campaign in Tokyo to revitalise their hard-hit business following the 11 September attacks
Photograph: Chiaki Tsukumo/AP
Japan Airlines:  Japan Airlines Systems planes at the New Tokyo International Airport
2003: JAL planes at the New Tokyo International Airport in Narita, Japan
Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP
Japan Airlines: Japan Airlines System ground staff help customers at the luggage check-in
2003: Ground staff help customers at the luggage check-in counter at Tokyo's Haneda airport. JAL Group posted a weak full year net profit and warned of deep losses people as cancelled flights due to Sars
Photograph: Yoshikatsu Tsuno/AFP
Japan Airlines: JAL President Isao Kaneko and Japanese actress Akiko Yada try new seats
2004: JAL President Isao Kaneko and Japanese actress Akiko Yada try new seats during a promotion for better seating on aircraft. In March JAL announced it would slash its group workforce by nearly 8% in the next three years while downgrading its sales and profit forecasts
Photograph: Yoshikatsu Tsuno/AFP
Japan Airlines: Japan Airlines workers wave at one of their planes preparing for take off
2006: JAL workers wave at one of their planes preparing for takeoff at the newly opened Kobe airport
Photograph: Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP
Japan Airlines: January 2009: A member of Japan Airlines staff checks an engine
January 2009: A worker checks an engine of a Japan Airlines Boeing 747-300 plane before a demonstration flight at Haneda Airport in Tokyo
Photograph: Itsuo Inouye/AP
Japan Airlines: Passengers are evacuated from Japan Airlines flight 61
May 2009: Passengers are evacuated from Japan Airlines Flight 61 to Tokyo after one of the plane's jet engines sucked up a cargo container at Los Angeles International Airport
Photograph: Calvin Nguyen/AFP
Japan Airlines: September 2009: Japan Airlines president Haruka Nishimatsu
September 2009: Japan Airlines president Haruka Nishimatsu dressed in a 'happi coat', hands out leaflets to promote the company to commuters in Tokyo
Photograph: Jiji Press/AFP
Japan Airlines: January 2010: A Japan Airlines plane flies over Tokyo
January 2010: A JAL plane from New Chitose airport flies over Tokyo as it approaches Haneda international airport
Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters
Japan Airlines: A man watches the stock price of Japan Airlines
January 2010: A man watches the share price of Japan Airlines in front of a brokerage in Tokyo
Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
Japan Airlines: A Japan Airlines passenger plane takes off at Tokyo International Airport
January 2010: A JAL passenger plane takes off at Tokyo International Airport
Photograph: Junko Kimura/Getty Images
Japan Airlines: January 2010: Passengers at Japan Airlines check in at Handea Airport
January 2010: Passengers use a self-check-in machine at Haneda Airport in Tokyo
Photograph: Itsuo Inouye/AP
Japan Airlines: January 2010: Japan Airlines President Haruka Nishimatsu bows
19 January 2010: Japan Airlines president Haruka Nishimatsu bows during a press conference in Tokyo, shortly after Japan's flagship carrier filed for bankruptcy in one of the nation's largest corporate failures. Nishimatsu resigned, bowing deeply as he apologised for the company's troubles
Photograph: Itsuo Inouye/AP
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