Malaysia-based low cost carrier AirAsia X Chief Executive Azran Osman-Rani (centre) smiles with the company’s cabin attendants after a news conference in Tokyo yesterday. AirAsia Japan, a joint venture of AirAsia and Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) announced in June that AirAsia Japan would be terminated by the end of October, just over a year after the carrier began flying out of Tokyo’s Narita airport.