Buoys set at Futenma replacement site

Buoys set at Futenma replacement site

NAGO, Japan - A Japan Coast Guard boat (far R) keeps guard as people in smaller boats and canoes protest against the government's move on Aug. 14, 2014, to install buoys to cordon off a stretch of shoreline in the Henoko district of Nago in the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa, set to become the site of a replacement facility for a U.S. Marine base in the prefecture.

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