Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga will join a rally to protest the relocation of a U. S. military base’s operations to the coastal Henoko area of Nago in Okinawa P
NAHA, OKINAWA PREF. – Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga will join a rally to protest the relocation of a U. S. military base’s operations to the coastal Henoko area of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture, slated to be held in the district later this week, a prefectural government source said Tuesday.
The decision came after Onaga, who was elected on an anti-base platform in 2014, ended up withdrawing the revocation of his predecessor’s approval for land reclamation work in October 2015 as the Supreme Court found it illegal late last year.
It would be the first time for the governor to take part in an anti-relocation rally held in the Henoko district.
Onaga, a strong opponent of the plan to replace U. S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, which is in densely populated Ginowan, with a new airstrip in Nago, is aiming to give the impression to the public that he is still eager to thwart the central government, the source said.
