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Japanese construction workers resumed landfill work at the new site of the U.S. military base on Okinawa despite protests by the island's residents that the move tramples on their rights and raises environmental concerns.
Work to reclaim a portion of seabed for a new Marine Corps airfield on Okinawa began Wednesday after a Japanese Cabinet minister approved job changes over local objections.