1,000 march against heliport relocation in Okinawa

1,000 march against heliport relocation in Okinawa

NAGO, Japan - About 1,000 people begin a three-day march May 17 in Nago, in northern Okinawa Prefecture, to protest plans to relocate a U.S. military heliport in Okinawa rather than moving it out of the prefecture. The participants in the march, organized by the Okinawa Peace Action Center, left Nago for Naha, the prefectural capital in southern Okinawa.

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