Monday, September 21, 2009 TOKYO: Around 100 Japanese children spent their Saturday flying paper airplanes in a contest held in suburban Tokyo.'We organised this contest to let our children get experiences in handcrafting things so that they become interested in craftsmanship at their early age and later become professional craftsmen,' Fumihiro Uno, the secretariat of Japanese Paper Airplane Association, says.30 teams, each with three members, participated in the event - seeing who could keep their plane airborne for the longest time.The country has a long and proud history of paper plane flying prowess, with nine out of the top-ten longest glides set by the Japanese.
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