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Actress Miho Owada revealed on her own Instagram that she ran into trouble during a baggage check while leaving Thailand. Owada, whose child has been studying abroad in Thailand since last summer and who visits frequently, wrote that “something unbelievable happened” and that she “somehow managed to leave the country while fighting back tears.” On a 5ch thread, the apparent cause — a mobile battery pack left inside her checked suitcase — drew plenty of comments calling out her own carelessness, while others speculated the mix-up stemmed from a misunderstanding in English, or argued that Thailand’s handling of the situation followed standard procedure. Opinions on how to read the incident were split.
Fri, Oct 30, 3:50 PM
Miho Owada (43), an actress and the eldest daughter of actor Baku Owada (76) and the late Kumiko Okae (who passed away in 2020), updated her Instagram on the 30th, writing about trouble she encountered during departure screening as she left Thailand, where she had been staying.
Owada’s child has been studying in Thailand since last summer, so she herself travels there often, but this time she opened an Instagram Story with: “I made it back to Japan safely, but… something unbelievable happened during departure screening in Thailand. I somehow got through it while fighting back tears, and now I’m completely exhausted…”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
How do you even mess that up?
That's beyond careless.
She's his daughter — her parents got married because they met on that show.
Wasn't she probably just told something like "You can't go back to Japan with the batteries"?
A power bank in checked luggage is a serious issue.
Made where, anyway?
No, carrying it in your hand luggage is fine —
just never stuff it in your checked suitcase, since it could cause a crash.
Not an ounce of self-awareness that she's the one at fault.
Exactly, seriously.
the type who gets called out and immediately plays the teary-eyed victim.
lithium-ion batteries have to be disposed of properly.
Even in Japan, some municipalities won't let you throw them out at all.
She should just file a complaint if she's got one.
Either way, power banks should be banned outright on domestic flights in Japan too —
how many of these things are catching fire at this point?
If it's really true, go file a complaint with the Thai airport.
Thailand didn't do anything wrong here, though.
She's a "second-generation" celebrity (a star who followed a parent into show business).
security suddenly said they'd confiscate it at the carry-on check, but I said it had never been an issue before and we smoothed it over.
Did the rules change or something?
It's been banned for quite a while now because of all the fire incidents.
Background and Key Points of This Story
Packing mobile power banks (lithium-ion batteries) in checked luggage has long been banned under International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) rules and individual airline policies due to the risk of fire or explosion, and the same rule applies on domestic Japanese flights. The trouble this time appears to have started when a battery pack was discovered in her suitcase during a baggage check as she left Thailand, and the prevailing view on the thread was that this was her own packing mistake and that Thailand’s response simply followed standard procedure. At the same time, her use of the phrase “departure screening” led some to guess the exchange actually took place at a security checkpoint rather than immigration, while others suggested she may have perceived a routine exchange as a major incident simply because she couldn’t follow the nuance in English. Since her own account leaves the finer details of what happened unclear, that ambiguity is part of why opinions on the thread were divided. It’s also worth noting — since the article itself doesn’t make this clear — that restrictions on carrying power banks onto planes have been tightened worldwide in recent years in response to a string of battery fire incidents, so this isn’t a new or unusual rule.
※This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geisports Sokuho+) thread “Miho Owada runs into trouble during departure screening leaving Thailand — “You can’t go back to Japan. That’s the rule now.” — manages to leave the country while fighting back tears“.
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