Okinawa mayors stage sit-in at Diet to seek U.S. base removal

Okinawa mayors stage sit-in at Diet to seek U.S. base removal

TOKYO, Japan - Demonstrators including Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine (second from left) stage a sit-in, holding a banner demanding the removal of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station from Okinawa Prefecture, in front of a Diet building in Tokyo on April 27, 2010. They were among 90,000 participants of a recent mass anti-base rally in the prefecture.

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