By YOSHITAKA ITO/ Staff Writer
January 17, 2020 at 17:20 JST
Shunsuke Yaita, right, mayor of Nishinoomote in Kagoshima Prefecture, at a meeting with Defense Ministry’s State Minister Tomohiro Yamamoto in Tokyo on Jan. 16 over the government’s plan to use an island in the city for the U.S. military’s landing practice (Yoshitaka Ito)
The mayor of a southwestern city with jurisdiction over an island that the central government plans to use as a training site for U.S. carrier-based aircraft is refusing to give his blessing to the project. [Read More]
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