THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 26, 2019 at 18:05 JST
Waters off the Henoko point in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, where reclamation work has been under way to build a new U.S. military facility to take over the functions of the Futenma airfield in the prefecture. (Eiji Hori)
The Defense Ministry announced that its estimate of the overall cost of constructing a replacement facility for a U.S. military base in Okinawa Prefecture will nearly triple to 930 billion yen ($8.48 billion) and take much longer than expected. [Read More]
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