Japanese group to sue Pentagon with dugongs

Japanese group to sue Pentagon with dugongs

NAHA, Japan - Takaaki Kagohashi, one of lawyers, who lead a group of environmentalists, tells an international symposium on protection of dugongs in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec. 2, that the group is planning to sue the U.S. Defense Department with dugongs and other rare animals living in and around the Heneko district of the southernmost island prefecture's city of Nago, the planned offshore construction site of a new civilian-military airport.

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