Japanese court docket rejects injunction towards flights at Atsugi Air Base

Yokohama –

The Yokohama District Courtroom on Wednesday rejected a request for an injunction towards nighttime and early morning flights at Atsugi Air Base in Kanagawa Prefecture that the Self-Protection Forces and the U.S. navy collectively use.

Presiding Decide Nobuhiro Okada on the district court docket rejected the request relating to SDF and U.S. navy plane, filed by some 8,700 residents in eight cities across the base, which straddles the Kanagawa cities of Yamato and Ayase.

However the choose ordered the state to pay roughly ¥5.9 billion in damages to the plaintiffs over previous noise air pollution linked to the bottom. He denied a damages declare for future noise air pollution.