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GREAT ESCAPE
Jam-packed Japan, a country always tight for space, has a long history of land reclamation. And Kansai International Airport, the main air hub for the western metropolis of Osaka, is one of those projects, an artificial island sitting like an unsinkable aircraft carrier in Osaka Bay. A causeway connects the airport to the mainland, and just across Sky Gate Bridge R from the airport stands the towering Star Gate Hotel, billed as one of the tallest hotels in Japan—an ocean view from every room. A couple of hours before midnight on December 29, 2019, an American named Michael Taylor and an associate passed under the lobby’s massive corkscrew-shaped chandelier to check out of Room 4609. The two men, in a rush to catch an important ...
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