National › Okinawa residents appeal ruling on flight noise at U.S. base

Wednesday 09th July, 03:12 AM JST NAHA — A group of residents in Okinawa Prefecture on Tuesday filed an appeal against a district court ruling last month that rejected their demand to suspend flights in the evening and early morning at the U.S. Marine Corps’ Futemma Air Station in downtown Ginowan city. The June 26 decision by the Naha District Court’s Okinawa branch ordered the Japanese government to pay a total of 146 million yen to the 392 plaintiffs in the suit in compensation for damage to their health, until the time of the ruling, from noise at the base that mainly serves helicopters. But the court rejected the plaintiffs’ demand for flight suspension from 7 p.m. until 7 a.m., compensation for future noise damage and noise gauging by the Japanese... [read full story]