Re-Posting from last bread.
The interesting points about this story is that I can tell as matter of fact that 70% of people voted against yet the problem is that reasons are not aloud. Meaning, in a perfect world NO BASES is ideal yet it's not a perfect world. This whole relocation is another Cabal money grab. Like Cali's Shinkansen or Boston's Big Dig. Just another place to dump money with out it easily tracked. Another BIG reason is that anyone who is REALLY following the story, they know that Abe is doing most of this, on behest of "Them", not the US Military. Also, the land they are filling in the area with is believe it or not,likely coming from Fukushima. This is one moar giant grift on the people of Japan by The Gobernment. Aligned with the Concrete manufacturers, (Pattern?) and all the usual suspects.
Also, this Publication, Japan Today is another Clown Rag. as with every other one it became obvious when you know what to look for. Also, I believe Governor Tamaki to be a White Hat.
Over 70% of voters reject U.S. base transfer in Okinawa referendum
NAHA
More than 70 percent of voters in Okinawa rejected a decades-old plan to relocate a U.S. air base within the prefecture in a referendum on Sunday, giving fresh impetus to the Okinawa government's attempt to stop the transfer.
The prefectural referendum is viewed as no more than symbolic, however, as the result is not binding on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government, which has already pushed ahead with work to build a replacement facility for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.
The central government will stick to the plan but may face public backlash if it continues to ignore the Okinawa people, possibly harming the ruling party's prospects in this year's upper house and local assembly elections.
The number of "no" votes also exceeded the one-quarter threshold obliging Okinawa Gov Denny Tamaki to abide by the outcome. Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump will be notified of the outcome as stipulated by the referendum ordinance when any of the options is approved by a quarter of eligible voters.
The turnout was 52.48 percent, according to the prefecture, topping the 50 percent line seen as giving legitimacy to the referendum. The figure compares with 59.53 percent in the previous referendum on scaling back U.S. bases in Okinawa and reviewing the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement in 1996, and 63.24 percent of September's gubernatorial election in which Tamaki won as he campaigned to block the relocation plan.
"This is the first time that opposition specifically to the plan…was clearly shown so it bears significant meaning," Tamaki told reporters after the result was finalized.
"I fully take the people's resolution, and strongly call on (the central government) to stop the relocation work," he said.
According to the prefecture, the number of "no" votes stood at 434,273 or 72.2 percent of the total voters, and topping 396,632 which Tamaki garnered in the September gubernatorial election.
Some 19.1 percent voted in favor of the plan while 8.8 percent voted "neither" in the referendum which asked whether they agreed with the landfill work being undertaken in a coastal area of Henoko to build the Futenma replacement facility.
In the referendum, the first of its kind that specifically focuses on the Futenma relocation issue, about 1.15 million Okinawa residents with Japanese citizenship aged 18 or over were eligible to vote.
Abe is considering meeting with Tamaki this week if the governor wants to, and at the meeting he will repeat the government's view that there is no other solution than the plan to relocate to Henoko, a government source close to Abe said.
According to exit polls with 1,760 voters, about 37 percent of "no" voters said they opposed the relocation plan as they think Okinawa needs no more bases, while nearly 82 percent of the total respondents said the central government should respect the outcome of the referendum.
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Over-70-of-voters-reject-U.S.-base-transfer-in-Okinawa-referendum