The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by eight Okinawa Prefecture landowners seeking damages for the forced leasing of their land to the U.S. military.
The court's First Petty Bench dismissed the appeal filed by Shoichi Chibana, 55, and the seven other plaintiffs, who argued that the revised Special Land Use Law violates the Constitution, which guarantees individual property rights.
They had been seeking a total of 140 million yen from the government.