News - Japan

TOKYO — Ask any frequent visitor to Tokyo which of the city’s two airports they would prefer to arrive at or depart from and you are pretty much guaranteed to get the same reply: Haneda International.

TOKYO, Japan — The Japanese government has taken over decision-making linked to the development of the U.S. Marine Corps base at Henoko, in north-east Okinawa, after the prefectural governor defied a series of court orders to approve new construction work at the site. The decision is the first time the Japanese government has applied an execution by proxy legal mechanism.