前宮古島市長を起訴　陸自駐屯地汚職―那覇地検

　沖縄県宮古島市への陸上自衛隊配備をめぐる汚職事件で、那覇地検は２日、前市長の下地敏彦容疑者（７５）を収賄罪で起訴した。地検は認否を明らかにしていない。
　起訴状などによると、ゴルフ場「千代田カントリークラブ」（閉鎖）の土地を駐屯地用地として国に売却できた謝礼として、２０１８年５月２４日、当時同ゴルフ場経営会社の社長だった下地藤康被告（６４）＝贈賄罪で起訴＝から、東京都内で現金６００万円の賄賂を受け取ったとされる。
　陸自の宮古島配備は、中期防衛力整備計画（中期防）に基づき１４年、防衛省が市側に検討を要請。下地容疑者は市長時代の１６年、陸自配備受け入れを表明した。（2021/06/02-18:25）

Public prosecutors on Wednesday indicted a former mayor of the city of Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture, for allegedly receiving bribes over a land deal for the construction of a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force camp.
   According to the Naha District Public Prosecutors Office in Naha, the capital of the southernmost prefecture, Toshihiko Shimoji, 75, allegedly accepted 6 million yen in bribes in Tokyo on May 24, 2018, from Fujiyasu Shimoji, 64, then president of a golf course operator in Miyakojima, as a reward for helping the firm's sale of a land plot in the island city to the Japanese government for the GSDF camp construction.
   Toshihiko Shimoji announced in June 2016, when he was in office as mayor, a decision on Miyakojima hosting the GSDF camp.
   Japan's Defense Ministry planned to build the camp to beef up the defense of Nansei islands in southwestern Japan amid China's increasing maritime assertiveness. After the ministry picked the land plot, the deployment of GSDF troops to the camp was completed in March last year.