By MIKA KUNIYOSHI/ Staff Writer
July 29, 2021 at 17:50 JST
The planned construction site in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on July 15 for a military base to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, also in the prefecture. A soft seabed was found in the right side of the photo. (Eiji Hori)
NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture announced on July 28 the issuance of a conditional permit for the Defense Ministry to transplant about 40,000 colonies of coral from waters near the construction site for a planned U.S. base. [Read More]
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