As the headline states, Kumamoto Airport is to be privatized, supposedly to speed up the rebuilding process. Personally, I have some doubts about the connection between privatization (“no more government support for you”) and faster rebuilding but I hope it works out that way. An airport spokesperson says that, after privatization, they play to “tackle an unprecedented project to build a new terminal building with much enhanced seismic capacity uniting domestic and international terminals, after demolishing the domestic terminal building damaged by the earthquake.”
– Kirk
