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The girl on the Porsche was a Keiko Tory, a junior high school classmate of Niko’s. After junior high school graduation, the two hadn’t met for nearly 10-years. They met again in 1971, when the Higashi-Kantō Expressway was opened to traffic.
The Higashi-Kantō Expressway was the access to the new Narita Airport, although the Airport wasn’t opened yet. So the Expressway became a very gigantic infrastructure, a six-lane, never realized in the past. Especially, the route between about the Shioiri interchange in Tokyo to Narashino, which ran above reclaimed areas, hadn’t issues about evictions and buy-offs, so obtained very oceanic space.
If there weren’t any cars running in sight, the place was like a huge public circuit.