The Buzz | Okinawa tries to stop move of US Marine air base

Local authorities on Okinawa sued Japan’s central government on Friday in an attempt to stop the relocation of a U.S. air base, deepening their decades-long row over the heavy American troop presence on the southern Japanese island.
The Okinawa government says the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism illegally suspended the prefectural governor’s cancellation of approval for reclamation work needed to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to a less-populated part of the island called Henoko.
“We will do whatever it takes to stop the new Henoko base,” Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga told a news conference in the prefectural capital of Naha. “Okinawa’s argument is legitimate, and I believe that it will be certainly understood.”