Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi attends commemorative ceremony in Okinawa. He expressed the government's intention to do everything in its power to reduce the burden on the base.

The site of the former residential area at Camp Zukeran, a US military base that straddles Okinawa City and Kitanakagusuku Village, is scheduled to be returned from next year onwards. Before that, it will be opened to the public as a green space on the 31st, and on the 30th.