Mageshima Base Plan Kagoshima Prefectural Governor ``The Government is in a Hurry'' ``Unable to Approve'' for Tender Announcement and Budget Proposal

At the New Year's press conference on the 4th, Governor Koichi Shiota of Kagoshima Prefecture commented on the relocation of US military aircraft training to Mageshima, Nishinoomote City, and the Ministry of Defense's approach to the Self-Defense Forces base development plan. will do,” he said. In the middle of the environmental impact assessment (assessment), the public announcement of a bid for plant construction directly linked to the maintenance of the base itself was announced, and the fact that 318.3 billion yen was included in the budget proposal for facility maintenance, etc., was "not acceptable." [Photo] Illustration of Mageshima Air Base (provisional name) facility layout image

　While stating that "there must be security considerations" regarding the current state of accelerated national procedures, he also requested that "the impact on the environment, which is of great interest to residents, should be clearly shown". The timing for presenting the prefectural government's approach to the plan will be after the announcement of the preliminary report that conveys the results of the assessment as before, and emphasized that "we will judge by looking at the content whether it is proper as a basis for judgment." Concerning the report that the Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military have drafted a draft of a new joint operation plan between Japan and the U.S. to set up a U.S. military base in the Nansei Islands in anticipation of an emergency in Taiwan, he said, "I am puzzled because there is only newspaper information." complied. Regarding the evacuation of residents in the event of an assumed situation, he indicated his intention to confirm the system based on the Civil Protection Law.