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| US Marine Corps Futenma air Station |
TOKYO, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- A high court on Thursday ordered the Japanese government to pay some 950 million yen (8.3 million U.S. dollars) in damages to a number of residents near the U.S. Futenma air base in Okinawa prefecture for aircraft noise.
The Fukuoka High Court's Naha branch upheld a former district court ruling ordering the central government to pay damages but raised the amount of payment from around 754 million (6.6 million U.S. dollars) previously to some 950 million yen.
Some 2,200 residents filed the suit in 2012 with the Okinawa branch of the Naha District Court against the government, complaining of emotional distress and negative impacts on the health caused by the aircraft noise and demanded 1 billion yen in compensation.
The district court ruled in June last year that the government should pay a total of some 754 million yen in damages to around 2,100 of the plaintiffs. Both the plaintiffs and the government appealed the ruling.
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