Panel to check ex-Okinawa governor's OK for U.S. base transfer

Panel to check ex-Okinawa governor's OK for U.S. base transfer

Deputy Okinawa Gov. Mitsuo Ageda (L) meets with Kazunori Inoue (far R), chief of the Okinawa Defense Bureau, in Kadena in the southernmost Japanese prefecture on Jan. 26, 2015. Ageda requested that the bureau refrain from conducting a drilling survey in the Henoko district of Nago until a newly created panel, established to examine the former Okinawa governor's approval of landfill work for the relocation of the U.S. Futenma base, submits its conclusion. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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