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| U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma |
TOKYO, July 21 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese government said Thursday that it will file a fresh lawsuit against Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga over the planned relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma base within Okinawa.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga notified Onaga in a meeting Thursday in Tokyo that the government would file the suit with the Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court on Friday.
The government aimed to seek the court's confirmation that Onaga acted illegally in not complying with a state order to retract his revocation of the former governor's permission for the landfill work of the air base relocation, said Suga at a press conference.
Onaga told reporters later that a fresh lawsuit would be "extremely deplorable" and that Okinawa "will consider what to do as soon as we receive the complaint."
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