Kan visits Okinawa

Kan visits Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - People mount a protest rally in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2010, against a visit by Prime Minister Naoto Kan to the southern island the same day. The demonstrators urged the government to nullify an accord with the United States to relocate the controversial U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Base within the prefecture.

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