Kan visits Okinawa

Kan visits Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - A participant in a protest rally bangs a large steel can in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2010, urging Prime Minister Naoto Kan's government to nullify an accord with the United States to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station within Okinawa.

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