Japan court backs Tokyo bid to relocate Okinawa base
 

TOKYO: A Japanese court on Friday approved Tokyo´s plan to relocate a US military base on Okinawa in a move unlikely to immediately resolve a long-running spat between central and local authorities.

Tokyo wants to move the unpopular US airbase in a crowded residential district on Okinawa to a sparsely populated area in its **rth, but many locals want the base moved off the island altogether.

The dispute has seen Okinawan gover**r Takeshi Onaga and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe´s government file rival lawsuits as local authorities have blocked plans to reclaim land for the relocation -- a priority for Tokyo as it seeks to satisfy its ally the United States.

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