Masanori Matsukawa, 70, the Mayor of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, was Asahi Shimbun dead at his hotel early that morning. According to the situation at the scene, the police believe that Masanori Matsukawa is likely to die of illness.
Masanori Matsukawa, Mayor of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture
According to reports, Matsukawa officially left for Tokyo on the 24th, and on the 25th he held talks with his Chief Cabinet Secretary at the Prime Minister’s residence, asking the Japanese government to adopt measures such as funding, to promote the reuse of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma Land in Japan. As mayor of Ginowan, Matsukawa has been petitioning the US and Japanese governments for years to remove the security risks posed by the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the city and return the site as soon as possible, the report said.
According to the Asahi Shimbun, Matukawa was scheduled to return from Tokyo on the 26th, but he did not show up in the hotel lobby even when it was time to gather, and the accompanying staff went to his room to check on the situation, turns Out Matukawa was lying dead in her room.
In 1996, the Japanese and n governments reached an agreement on the return of US troops to Marine Corps Air Station Futenma Airport, which has long been blamed for noise and accidents at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma’s airports. The Return of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma Airport was conditional on its relocation to other parts of the county.
The Japanese and US governments agreed in 1996 to relocate the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma base in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, to the ancient area of Nago Bieno in the prefecture, which would require land reclamation and the construction of two new runways. Okinawa people expressed strong opposition to this, the U. S. military base to move out of Okinawa. Tamagusuku Dany, Okinawa Prefecture’s governor, criticised the relocation plan as “Called relocation, but actually new construction” and called for a further reduction in the number of US troops until the base is closed and Marine Corps Air Station Futenma returned to the Okinawans.
The base brings noise, pollution and safety hazards to the local people. August 13,2004, a large U. S. military transport helicopter in the vicinity of the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma Airport, Okinawa International University campus crashed and caught fire, three people on board were injured. The school was on holiday and there were no casualties on the ground.
Matukawa was elected Mayor of Ginowan in September 2018 and re-elected in September 2022, the Yomiuri said. He won endorsement from the government and the LDP for his position that he was not opposed to the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Henoko.