image: Zero Enterprise
A restored Zero fighter plane from World War II is set to take flight over Japan next week, marking the first time since the war's end 70 years ago that one of the iconic aircraft has flown in Japanese airspace, the Japan Times reported on Monday. The Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero had been in storage in the U.S., and was brought to Japan last September by Zero Enterprise Inc., a U.S.-based company. It has been on display at an air base, where it was reassembled after shipping, and its engine was tested on July 7. "We hope this [flight] will make people reflect on the past and think of their future," said Hitoshi Okubo, a spokesman for Zero Enterprise. "We wanted to give young people in particular an opportunity to think of the impact of war."
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