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Tokyo moved Oct. 5 to remove the Okinawa prefectural government from future decision-making regarding a land reclamation project for a U.S. military base that has strained relations between the two entities to breaking point.
Japan's land minister on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Okinawa governor, seeking to proceed with the central government's modified plan for landfill work for the relocation of a key U.S. base within the southern island prefecture. The suit filed at the Fukuoka High Court's Naha branch is part of…
Japan's Okinawa Prefecture rejects the central government's order to endorse its modified plan on landfill work for the transfer of a key U.S. base, in a move likely to prompt the administration of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to take legal action.
The central government and Okinawa Prefecture have long been at odds over relocating U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.
NAHA--Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki missed the Sept. 27 deadline set by the land minister for approving design changes that are holding up a contentious U.S. military base relocation project within the prefecture.