61106 There were no problems in the subsequent flights.
61107 From the night of December 31 to the morning of January 1, many young people and families filled the Kansai International Airport to enjoy diverse events and the first sunrise of the New Year.
61108 Trains ran on the Nankai and JR lines all through the night to and from the airport, and six shops and restaurants in KIX also operated all-night for the first time.
61109 In the concert opened in the concourse of Kansai-Kuko Station, there was a year-end countdown, followed by the yells of "Happy New Year!" from the audience of about 2,000, and the enthusiasm at the beginning of the New Year was impressive as a sign of 24-hour operation of KIX.
61110 At the same time, temples and shrines nationwide were filled with people paying the first visit of the year.
61111 The Sumiyoshi Shrine in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka City, which gets heavily crowded every year on the New Year's Day, was filled with visitors that rushed in after a long wait as the gate was opened at 10:00 p.m., December 31.
61112 As of midnight, the number of visitors to Sumiyoshi Shrine was counted to be at around 67,000, 38,000 less than in the previous year.
61113 At around 3:50 p.m., December 31, Jiro Kato, a waste recycler from Kawabe-cho, Higashi-kujo, Minami-ku of Kyoto City, dialed the emergency number to report, "A glass doll case in the living room on the first floor of my house is broken, and there is a crater in the wall that seems like a bullet hole."
61114 The Kujo Police Station found three bullet holes in all, the one in the living room, shot through the shutter and glass window to lodge in the wall; one in the eaves of the second-floor roof; and another on the outer wall.
61115 The bullets have not been discovered.
61116 The Station is investigating the incident as a gun firing case.
61117 Kato's wife, Kikuko, said, "I heard a banging noise as made by a falling object between two and three o'clock a.m.," and the police are investigating the relationship between her story and the incident.
61118 A cycling group comprising teachers and company workers, "Hyogo Ishikoro Association," plans to travel by bicycle about 200 kilometers from Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, across the border and northward to Tantung, China, in August this year.
61119 The DPRK is examining measures to open its doors, including a plan to hold an event this April with invited pro wrestlers and boxers, but it is the first time for the nation to admit foreigners to travel by bike in its territory.
61120 The Association led by Hironori Koike, Chairman and former high school teacher from Chuo-ku, Kobe, first cycled between Nanjing and Yangzhou in the summer of 1980, and has held a long-distance cycling tour in China every summer since then; in the summer of 1992, they traveled through the 4,000 kilometers of the Silk Road.