The central government will play its legal card and approve changes to land reclamation work on behalf of Okinawa Prefecture on Dec. 28 for the relocation of a U.S. military base within the prefecture, the land minister said.
Rushane Joel McKoy, a U.S. civilian working for the Army and Air Force Exchange Service on Okinawa, has appealed his four-year prison sentence for attempted rape and theft convictions, a spokeswoman from Naha District Court said.