The Japanese government last week turned aside another move by Okinawa’s prefectural governor to halt work on an airfield fixed as the new home of Marine Corps aviation on the island.
A government campaign in Japan urging people to drink more milk to help the domestic dairy industry tide over a supply glut has not gone down well with some consumers. The oversupply crisis this winter was triggered by a sharp drop in milk consumption as schools which provide individual cartons of milk to children as part of their lunches are.