NAHA, Okinawa Pref. (Kyodo) The chairman of the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly on Monday handed U.S. Ambassador John Roos a letter demanding that the plan to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma within the prefecture be scrapped.
Zenshin Takamine said in the letter addressed to President Barack Obama that 90 percent of residents in Okinawa oppose the plan to move the airfield, now in the city of Ginowan, to the Henoko coast of Nago, as agreed to last month by Tokyo and Washington.