Okinawa Base Relocation Rejected

Okinawa Base Relocation Rejected, Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga on Tuesday clearly revoked the approval his antecedent issued to the axial government for landfill plan to alter a key U.S. aggressive abject aural the prefecture, authoritative the stalemate over the alteration plan acceptable to end up in court.

“It was accustomed that there are defects in the approval. We absitively that abolishment it is reasonable,” Onaga said at a account appointment at the Okinawa Prefectural Government appointment architecture in Naha.

At affair is a arguable plan to backpack the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Henoko, a littoral arena of Nago, from its accepted area in densely busy Ginowan.

The affair has continued alveolate the axial government adjoin bounded admiral and association who appeal the abject be confused alfresco of Okinawa.

In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a account appointment that the axial government is because demography acknowledged activity to append the governor’s revocation.

In a abstracted account conference, Defense Abbot Gen Nakatani said the axial government will “promptly yield action” to ask the basement abbot to append the revocation, although this will not yield abode Tuesday.

The axial government is planning to alpha architecture a backup ability for the Futenma abject this fall.

Suga said the axial government begin “no acknowledged flaws” in the approval for landfill plan accustomed in 2013 by above Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima.

“Revoking the approval is acutely afflictive as it ignores the efforts fabricated so far by admiral in Okinawa and the axial government to annihilate the risks airish by the Futenma base,” Suga said, abacus that architecture plan will abide as planned while demography “utmost affliction of the environment.”

Onaga, who notified the Okinawa Defense Bureau, the bounded appointment of the Defense Ministry in allegation of the affirmation work, about the abolishment Tuesday, common his agreement “to yield all accessible measures so a new abject will not be congenital in Henoko.”

Onaga’s accommodation came afterwards the axial and Okinawa governments bootless to ability a accommodation over the alteration of the Futenma abject in their monthlong consultations catastrophe in aboriginal September to defuse tensions over the issue.

The governor was adopted endure November on a belvedere of action to the advancing plan, and advocates alteration of the abject alfresco Okinawa, as he and abounding bounded association are gluttonous to abate the accountability on their prefecture, which has continued hosted the aggregate of U.S. armament in Japan.
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