The central government on Friday proposed eight possible construction plans for an airfield to replace the U.S. Marine Corp.'s Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture.
The proposals, presented by government leaders at a meeting in Tokyo with top Okinawa officials, ranged in cost from 140 billion yen to 1 trillion yen.
The mayor of the northern Okinawa city of Nago, the proposed site of the facility, expressed concern that Tokyo is trying to proceed with the project while failing to address various concerns raised by local municipalities, such as local demands for a 15-year time limit on the U.S. military's use of the facility.