Okinawa peace march starts

Okinawa peace march starts

A three-day peace march to demand the withdrawal of U.S. military bases from Okinawa starts May 13 in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, ahead of the 27th anniversary May 15 of Okinawa's reversion to Japan in 1972. The marchers plan to tour local U.S. military bases and former battlefields of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, in which a third of the prefecture's population died. ==Kyodo

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