Okinawa Governor’s Shock Death Complicates Fight Over Marine Base
The sudden death on Aug. 8 of Takeshi Onaga, Okinawa’s governor and a critical political figure in the prefecture’s opposition to US military bases, has thrown into disarray the fight to stop the US Marines’ new Futenma Replacement Facility, whose construction is to begin on Aug. 17.
The construction of the Marines’ air station was bitterly opposed by On…
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