Hideto Kijima of Japan spoke to the news media in Osaka on Wednesday. He said the staff of Vanilla Air told him he could not board a small aircraft because it lacked wheelchair-accessible boarding ramps or elevators.Credit...Yuki Sato/Kyodo News, via Associated Press TOKYO — A Japanese airline has apologized to a disabled rights activist, who is partly paralyzed, after it tried to prevent him from
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