Anti-base protests flare at Futenma relocation site as survey work gets under way
NAGO, Okinawa Prefecture--Protesters and authorities clashed on land and in water over preparatory work here to resume a seabed survey for the planned relocation of a U.S. air base.
The Defense Ministry’s Okinawa Defense Bureau started installation work Jan. 15 of a floating pier for the seabed drilling survey, part of measures toward relocating the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Ginowan in the prefecture to the Henoko district of Nago.
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NAGO, Okinawa Prefecture--Protesters and authorities clashed on land and in water over preparatory work here to resume a seabed survey for the planned relocation of a U.S. air base.
The Defense Ministry’s Okinawa Defense Bureau started installation work Jan. 15 of a floating pier for the seabed drilling survey, part of measures toward relocating the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Ginowan in the prefecture to the Henoko district of Nago.
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