TOKYO: Japan’s Okinawa on Friday approved the long-stalled relocation of a controversial United States (US) military base, the defense ministry said, a breakthrough that looks set to remove a decades-long source of friction between Tokyo and Washington.
Local bureaucrats signed a document that gives the governor’s green light to a landfill, paving the way for the construction of a new base on the coast.
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