Gov't starts drilling survey for U.S. base relocation

Gov't starts drilling survey for U.S. base relocation

NAGO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 18, 2014, from Kyodo News helicopter shows the sea area where Japan's Defense Ministry started a drilling survey with a jack-up barge off the Henoko district of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture at the planned relocation site for the U.S. Futenma airbase. The ministry plans to conduct the drilling survey at 16 seabed sites off the coast through Nov. 30.

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