19:19 12 January 2014
Official campaigning starts for Nago mayoral race, U.S. base in focus
NAHA, Japan, Jan. 12, Kyodo
Campaigning kicked off Sunday for the Jan. 19 mayoral election in Nago, Okinawa, with the incumbent, who opposes the hosting of a new U.S. military facility, challenged by a pro-base candidate.
The outcome of the race between Susumu Inamine, the 68-year-old incumbent who is seeking a second four-year term, and Bunshin Suematsu, a 65-year-old former Okinawa prefectural assembly member, is expected to affect the Japan-U.S. plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station from a crowded residential area in Ginowan to a coastal area in less densely populated Nago, both in Okinawa.
The election follows Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima's approval late last month of landfill work to build the facility in Nago.
The outcome of the race between Susumu Inamine, the 68-year-old incumbent who is seeking a second four-year term, and Bunshin Suematsu, a 65-year-old former Okinawa prefectural assembly member, is expected to affect the Japan-U.S. plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station from a crowded residential area in Ginowan to a coastal area in less densely populated Nago, both in Okinawa.
The election follows Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima's approval late last month of landfill work to build the facility in Nago.
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