Defense Bureau announces actual work to start in August on landfill for the weak seabed area on Henoko’s north side. (20jn24
Splendor of Okinawa: Pink Wood Sorrel, roadside Uruma, 4jn24 Plans are underway to relocate the US Military Futenma Airfield in Ginowan to Henoko in Nago, both in Okinawa Prefecture. The Defense Ministry’s Okinawa Defense Bureau has notified the Prefecture that actual work will start in Oura Bay on the north side of Henoko on 1 August. This work will begin the actual landfill of a wide area of weak seabed and is expected to be a difficult chore. One fourth of the proposed landfill area on the south side of Henoko has already been turned into ground surface. However, on the north side, real work can just now get started, because, at the end of last year, the Government used its exercise of proxy, in place of the Prefecture, to give itself permission for design changes needed for work to shore up the weak seabed. So, this January work began to construct an offshore storage area, or yard. But, now that the proxy permission has been affirmed, the Government and the Prefecture, based on t...