跡地を「沖縄経済の起爆剤に」　菅官房長官、那覇軍港視察

　菅義偉官房長官は２２日、返還計画がある那覇市の米軍那覇港湾施設（那覇軍港）を視察した。菅氏は記者団に、「東京ディズニーランドよりも広く、産業・観光の拠点として、沖縄経済の起爆剤として、大いに高いポテンシャルを持っている」と述べた。米軍や地元関係機関と連携して早期返還の実現に全力を挙げる考えだ。
　日米両政府は、１９９６年の沖縄に関する特別行動委員会（ＳＡＣＯ）最終報告で那覇軍港の浦添市移設を盛り込んだ。しかし、沖縄県と那覇市、浦添市の間で、移設先の軍港の位置に関して意見の隔たりがあり、協議が続いている。菅氏は移設先の浦添埠頭（ふとう）地区も視察した。（2019/12/22-16:27）

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga inspected a port used by the U.S. military in Naha, the capital of the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa, on Sunday.
   "The area of the port facility is larger than that of Tokyo Disneyland and has a huge potential as a base for local industries and tourism, and as a catalyst to spark Okinawa's economic growth," he told reporters after the visit, underscoring the central government's resolve to realize the early return of the site by stepping up coordination with local officials in Okinawa and the U.S. military.
   The 1996 final report from the Special Action Committee on Okinawa of the Japanese and U.S. governments included a plan to transfer the functions of the Naha military port to an area including a pier in the city of Urasoe in the prefecture.
   But talks on the matter are still under way, due to gaps in opinions on details about the substitute military port site among the prefecture and the city governments of Naha and Urasoe. Suga also visited the Urasoe pier area on Sunday.
   Over the central government's plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air station in the Okinawa city of Ginowan to the Henoko coastal district in Nago, another city in the prefecture, a media report has said that the state estimates the period of construction of the main base facility at about 10 years.