TOKYO: Japan’s central government resumed work at a disputed US military base relocation site even though Okinawa residents see the project as an undemocratic imposition on the small southern island.
An early stage of landfill work at Henoko on Okinawa’s east coast began yesterday morning, following the central government’s decision this week to reverse Okinawa’s earlier ban on landfill work at the site, said Satoshi Shirakata, a spokesman at the Okinawa Defence Bureau overseeing the project.
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