Japan's top court nixes Okinawa bid to halt U.S. base landfill work

Japan's top court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by the Okinawa prefectural government to halt landfill work for the relocation of a key U.S. base within the southern island prefecture.The Supreme Court's decision upheld lower court rulings in which Okinawa's cases against the central government were dismissed.Okinawa had challenged the legality of the then land minister's decision in 2019 to authorize the landfill work to build a replacement facility for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.The Supreme Court said that the approval for the work is a legally entrusted task of the central g…READ FULL ARTICLE