Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga said Friday he has asked local officials to start procedures to retract his predecessor's approval of landfill work for relocating a U.S. military base within Japan's subtropical island prefecture.The order by Onaga, whose current term will expire in November, is seen as a last resort to block the central government's plan to transfer U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to the Henoko coastal area of Nago from a crowded residential district in Ginowan."I will take whatever measures and do my utmost to realize my election pledge of preventing the construction of a…READ FULL ARTICLE
