TOKYO, May 19 -- To stop swine flu before it could sneak off airplanes arriving from North America, Japan dispatched masked health inspectors with fever-sensing guns to walk among passengers.
But the flu has taken hold in this island nation anyway, with rapidly increasing numbers of confirmed cases in its western region. It is now inevitable, experts said, that the H1N1 virus will spread to the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area, where about 35 million people live and commuters are packed cheek to jowl daily on a vast network of trains and buses.
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