Japanese government ordered to pay record damages in U.S. base noise suit
(WorldNews Japan)

Residents near the U.S. Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture were awarded about A 30.2 billion in a court ruling Thursday, marking the largest damages payment levied against the Japanese government in a suit over noise from a military installation. But the Okinawa branch of the Naha District Court turned down a request by 22,000 residents to ban nighttime and early morning flights at the biggest U.S. air base in East Asia. ......