You're right, a bit of a copy/paste problem - should have been NRT-KUL rather than HND. I prefer JL to MH (though I did KUL-NRT-KUL in MH "F"/business suites recently, JAL is going to be better in business I feel, even if I've got the 767 on this day)

And the TC point is very fair and good advice for anyone reading.

Until this particular problem occurred I had managed OK with my "2 stopovers only" in Asia North by using the South continent, though it turns out it was sheer good luck that I managed to always do the stopovers before/after. In the case of living in Asia getting to another TC is quite a mission to get somewhere cheap for starting like the Nordics, as I need to move 4 family members including a two kids under 5: whereas it's quite easy/'cheap'/5 hours to get to Tokyo. As it is, I will now have a RTW starting in Oslo soon, so I could throw away the next legs and always start there.... but I will be very tempted to take my LHR-HND flight with JAL on the A350 . However, that's a next year problem, as my penchant to do Tokyo starts does mean sometimes I "waste" money and do a TYO-HKG-TYO return before I start my next RTW to buy time, but it is poor value vs another DONE3.