September 3 off the coast on Camp Schwab in Henoko, Nago City (photographed by small drone)
December 18, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 11 the Association of War-Bereaved Families Opposed to War and Praying for Peace held a protest against the plan for collecting soil from the southern part of Okinawa Island and using the soil for land reclamation work in Henoko. The Association sent urgent notices to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, among others, requesting that this plan for soil collection be stopped. Takamatsu Gushiken, the president of the Gamafuya, a volunteer group dedicated to the recovery of remains of the Battle of Okinawa, has been asking the Okinawa Prefectural Government and the Okinawa Defense Bureau to put a stop to this soil collection plan, but this is the first time the Association of War-Bereaved Families has protested and asked for the soil collection to stop.