Japanese protest US Marine bases in Okinawa Prefecture

‘Thousands of Japanese people have staged a demonstration to express their strong opposition to the presence of US military bases on the southern island of Okinawa, and to demand the removal of the controversial sites and US Marine Corps from the region.
The protesters gathered at a seaside resort in the city of Nago in the northern part of the island on Thursday as the US military returned 9,800 acres of land it had controlled since the end of the Second World War.
The demonstrators carried banners that read “Get out! Marines” and “No base Henoko” in English, as lines of policemen wearing masks stood by.’
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