Governor, mayor lodge protest over Osprey deployment

TOKYO, Japan - Yamaguchi Gov. Sekinari Nii (C) and Iwakuni Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda (R) present a written request to Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto at the ministry in Tokyo on July 25, 2012. The governor and mayor lodged strong protests with the central government over the deployment of the U.S. Osprey military aircraft in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, requesting the Ospreys not be stationed for long at the Iwakuni base and calling for the planes to be returned to the United States if their safety is not verified.

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