NAHA, OKINAWA PREF. – A massive crowd gathered in Okinawa on Saturday to protest the government’s controversial plan to relocate a contentious U.S. air base to another part of the prefecture.
Some 70,000 people took part in the rally at a park in Okinawa’s capital Naha, where they adopted a resolution urging the central government to abandon the plan to transfer U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from densely populated Ginowan to the coastal area of Henoko in Nago, according to an organizer.
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