A large ship, deck barge (141m long and 36m wide), has arrived. It can store 9,000㎥ of earth and sand, 7 to 9 times a regular carrier, and enables continuous operation in bad weather when cargo ships cannot make deliveries.
Before 8 am, finding that a barge was towed off the coast of Henoko and headed for Oura Bay, the team with one protest ship and 12 canoes immediately left for Oura Bay for protest. The canoe team crossed the floats, entered into the restricted area, and waited along the floats to prevent the large barge from being installed to the offshore buoys. They confronted 17 boats consisting of Japan Coast Guard rubber boats and guard boats for more than 4 hours. When the installation work began, the canoes team started rowing toward the buoys, but the Japan Coast Guard detained all.
Ms. Shizuko Shima, who rushed to the site from Nanjo City, said, “That big ship looks like an over-powering state authority to me, but the canoe team gave me power. I do not want to give up.”
The installation of a large barge for sediment storage was not in the original plan when the Okinawa Prefectural government approved the landfill, so the government is now reviewing the situation to decide what measures to take.
Two years have passed since the start of the landfill, but construction has progressed only slowly. They installed a large barge to make Okinawans give up their opposing movement. However, using a large barge will not speed up the construction pace. Furthermore, there awaits a parcel of soft ground in the Oura Bay that requires impossible improvement work.
(In front of Camp Schwab Gate)
About 30 people sat in to protest. Mr. K, a singer-songwriter, performed songs one after another to cheer up the participants. When the news came that the large barge had arrived at Oura Bay for sediment storage, eight people headed for Sedake on the opposite bank at 10:30 am. They cheered the canoe team facing the Japan Coast Guard near the large barge from the coast with a loudspeaker. “Don’t lose to the Japan Coast Guard” and “We, the land team, is with you. We fight together.”
The three rounds of deliveries in a total of 200 truckloads went into the base.
(In front of Camp Schwab Gate)
About 30 people sat in to protest. Mr. K, a singer-songwriter, performed songs one after another to cheer up the participants. When the news came that the large barge had arrived at Oura Bay for sediment storage, eight people headed for Sedake on the opposite bank at 10:30 am. They cheered the canoe team facing the Japan Coast Guard near the large barge from the coast with a loudspeaker. “Don’t lose to the Japan Coast Guard” and “We, the land team, is with you. We fight together.”
The three rounds of deliveries in a total of 250 truckloads went into the base.
(Motobu Shiokawa Pier)
Shipment of earth and sand for the first time in 10 days. Only three members of Motobu-Cho Shimagurumi (Motobu chapter of the Island-Wide Conference) came to protest. The group discussed how to continue the dump-truck monitoring, which Mr. Kizo Takagaki, who died last week, had been doing for a long time. Six people came forward to fill the weekly schedule, and today is the first day per the new schedule.
A total of 602 truckloads were moved onto five pontoons, which departed for Oura Bay.
Number of dump trucks which made delivery from December 2018 to the end of December 2019 114,601(1.39%)
| 5（Sat） | 7（Mon） | 8（Tue） | 9（Wed） | 10 （Thu） | 11（Fri） | |
| Awa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 674 | 853 |
| Shiokawa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 602 |
| Number of dump trucks ※ |
Weightt of earth/sand
※① |
Converted to volume
※② |
Volume per Total
※③ |
| 290,076 | 1,450,380t | 725,190㎥ | 3.590% |
※ Cumulative since Dec. 1, 2019
※① Calculated by assuming that the average truckload per dump truck would be 5 tons
※② Calculated by assuming that a specific weight of soil/sand set to be 2
※③ Percentage against 20.200.000m3, the total volume of earth and sand required for the landfill.
