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Japanese police on Okinawa are looking for the driver of a car with license plates assigned to U.S. forces who collided with another car, injuring five people, and then fled the scene.
In its ruling on a dispute concerning the construction of a U.S. military base in Okinawa Prefecture, the Supreme Court simply endorsed the government’s policy while abandoning the role of the judiciary as the watchdog over the executive branch.
NAHA--Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki has no more legal cards to play in the prefecture's long-running battle to stop the relocation of a U.S. military base to the Henoko district of Nago.
The decision may accelerate the relocation effort, as it requires the prefectural government to approve design changes.
Japan's top court on Monday turn down an appeal by Okinawa Prefecture against the state's order to advance landfill work for the relocation of a key U.S. base within the southern island prefecture.