Okinawa Gov. Nakaima

Okinawa Gov. Nakaima

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima speaks in an interview at the prefectural government building in Naha on Dec. 27, 2011. Nakaima expressed his intention to not reject receiving the government's key environmental assessment report on relocating the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station.

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