Urgent: Japan's Okinawa orders to halt U.S. base relocation work, says report

Japan's Okinawa prefectural government on Monday ordered to suspend underwater work in the Henoko coastal area in Nago city in the Japan's southernmost island prefecture for a relocation site for the U.S. Futenma airbase, local report said.

Okinawa Govenor Takeshi Onaga told reporters that if the Okinawa Defense Bureau does not follow the order, the Okinawa government would revoke in a week its permit granted to the bureau for rock drilling at the site. Endi