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Japan defense minister visits Okinawa Pref.

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi (front) looks at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from the rooftop of the Ginowan city government building in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Jan. 8, 2026.

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Japan defense minister visits Okinawa Pref.

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi (front) looks at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from the rooftop of the Ginowan city government building in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Jan. 8, 2026.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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US: EF-1 Tornado Touches Down In Athens, AL, Leaving Devastating Damage

The National Weather Service in Huntsville has confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down in downtown Athens, Alabama, on Saturday night, December 28.

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Okinawa peace march

People stage a rally in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 18, 2024, following a peace march calling for reducing the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces, three days after the 52nd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan, including U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan.

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Okinawa peace march

Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki addresses a rally in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 18, 2024, following a peace march calling for reducing the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces, three days after the 52nd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan, including U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan.

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Okinawa peace march

People stage a rally in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 18, 2024, following a peace march calling for reducing the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces, three days after the 52nd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan, including U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 18, 2024, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, three days after the 52nd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march in front of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 18, 2024, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, three days after the 52nd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march in front of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 18, 2024, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, three days after the 52nd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Okinawa peace march

People march near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on May 18, 2024, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, three days after the 52nd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan.

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Japan top gov't spokesman in Okinawa

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (L) holds talks with Ginowan Mayor Masanori Matsugawa in the Okinawa Prefectural city on Jan. 28, 2024, on the controversial relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Ginowan to another part of the southern Japan island prefecture.

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Japan top gov't spokesman in Okinawa

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (front) looks over the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan in Okinawa Prefecture from the city government office's roof top on Jan. 28, 2024, with Mayor Masanori Matsugawa. The Japanese central government plans to transfer the Futenma base to the Henoko district in Nago in the same southern island prefecture.

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Okinawa pref. assembly member Sakima to run for Ginowan mayor

GINOWAN, Japan - Atsushi Sakima, an executive member of the Okinawa prefectural chapter of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and a member of the Okinawa prefectural assembly, in Ginowan on Dec. 31, 2011, declares his intention to run in the Ginowan mayoral election slated for February 2012. The city in Okinawa Prefecture currently hosts the Futenma Air Station, a key U.S. Marine Corps base which is planned to be relocated from a densely populated area.

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Buoys installed off coast of U.S. Camp Schwab in Okinawa

NAGO, Japan - Buoys are installed off the coast of U.S. Marine Corps Camp Schwab to cordon off a shoreline stretch of the Henoko district in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Aug 14, 2014, amid demonstrations by protesters. An area off Henoko will be the site of a replacement facility for the Futenma air base in the densely populated southern Okinawa city of Ginowan.

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Okinawa university marks 10th anniv. of chopper crash

NAHA, Japan - Students and staff at Okinawa International University in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, gather on Aug. 13, 2014, in front of the stump of a tree burned down when a helicopter from the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air station crashed onto its campus 10 years ago. They demanded that the U.S. base, located in the city center, be shut down without further delay.

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People protest base relocation plan in Okinawa

NAGO, Japan - People sit in front of the gate of the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 13, 2014, to protest the planned landfill work for the relocation of the Futenma air station in Ginowan to the Henoko district in the northern Okinawa city.

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Mayor urges immediate removal of U.S. base

NAHA, Japan - Mayor Atsushi Sakima of Ginowan in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, calls for the prompt removal of a major U.S. military base from the city at a press conference in his office on Aug. 13, 2014, on the 10th anniversary of a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter crash at Okinawa International University. No local residents were hurt in the accident.

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Nago mayor in NY

NEW YORK, United States - Susumu Inamine (R), mayor of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture, speaks at a gathering in New York on May 17, 2014. Inamine reiterated his opposition to the planned relocation of the U.S. Marines' Futenma Air Station to an offshore area in his city from a densely populated residential area in Ginowan, also Okinawa.

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Nago mayor in NY

NEW YORK, United States - Susumu Inamine, mayor of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture, holds a newspaper during a gathering in New York on May 17, 2014. Inamine reiterated his opposition to the planned relocation of the U.S. Marines' Futenma Air Station to an offshore area in his city from a densely populated residential area in Ginowan, also Okinawa.

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Okinawa gov. to approve landfill for U.S. base relocation

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in April 2012 shows an offshore area in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, which is tapped as the site of a replacement airstrip for the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station, located in Okinawa's densely populated city of Ginowan.

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Additional Osprey aircraft deployed in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - An MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft flies over the city of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 25, 2013. The plane was the last of an additional batch of the aircraft deployed at the U.S. Marines' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, joining 11 others that arrived in August, in addition to 12 deployed in October 2012. Opposition to the deployment of the aircraft remains strong in Okinawa due to safety concerns.

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Protest against Osprey deployment

GINOWAN, Japan - People march in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec. 23, 2012, to protest the deployment of the Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in the city. They also protested a long-stalled plan to relocate the base within Okinawa, and a spate of recent incidents in Okinawa involving U.S. servicemen, which has rekindled local anger against U.S. troops stationed there.

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Protest against Osprey deployment

GINOWAN, Japan - People hold a rally in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec. 23, 2012, to protest the deployment of the Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in the city. They also protested a long-stalled plan to relocate the base within Okinawa, and a spate of recent incidents in Okinawa involving U.S. servicemen, which has rekindled local anger against U.S. troops stationed there.

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Protest against Osprey deployment

GINOWAN, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 23, 2012, shows participants in a rally in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, to protest the deployment of the Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in the city. They also protested a long-stalled plan to relocate the base within Okinawa, and a spate of recent incidents in Okinawa involving U.S. servicemen, which has rekindled local anger against U.S. troops stationed there.

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Protest against Osprey deployment

GINOWAN, Japan - People march in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec. 23, 2012, to protest the deployment of the Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in the city. They also protested a long-stalled plan to relocate the base within Okinawa, and a spate of recent incidents in Okinawa involving U.S. servicemen, which has rekindled local anger against U.S. troops stationed there.

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U.S. military, Okinawa accord on tsunami

NAHA, Japan - (from L) Atsushi Sakima, mayor of the city of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, Maj. Gen. Peter Talleri from the U.S. Marine Corps, and Masaharu Noguni, mayor of Chatan, hold a disaster agreement at Camp Zukeran in the prefecture on Nov. 5, 2012. The U.S. Marine Corps in Japan reached agreement with municipalities in Okinawa to open its bases near the sea to local residents if a tsunami were to hit the southern island prefecture.

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U.S. military, Okinawa accord on tsunami

NAHA, Japan - (from L) Atsushi Sakima, mayor of the city of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, Maj. Gen. Peter Talleri from the U.S. Marine Corps, and Masaharu Noguni, mayor of Chatan, sign a disaster agreement at Camp Zukeran in the prefecture on Nov. 5, 2012. The U.S. Marine Corps in Japan reached agreement with municipalities in Okinawa to open its bases near the sea to local residents if a tsunami were to hit the southern island prefecture.

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Osprey aircraft

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows a U.S. military MV-22 Osprey aircraft flying over the city of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 12, 2012.

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Osprey flying in helicopter mode

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows U.S. Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey aircraft flying in vertical take-off and landing mode -- helicopter mode -- over an area of the city of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 6, 2012. Under the bilateral agreement reached in September that year, Ospreys are restricted to flying in such mode only within the boundaries of U.S. military facilities and areas "except as operationally necessary."

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Osprey aircraft in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows U.S. Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey aircraft at the Futenma airbase in the city of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 6, 2012.

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Osprey aircraft in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows U.S. Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey aircraft at the Futenma airbase in the city of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 6, 2012.

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Osprey aircraft in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows U.S. Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey aircraft flying over the city of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 6, 2012.

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Osprey aircraft in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows U.S. Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey aircraft at the Futenma airbase in the city of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 6, 2012.

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Osprey aircraft in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows U.S. Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey aircraft at the Futenma airbase in the city of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 6, 2012.

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Osprey aircraft in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows U.S. Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey aircraft flying over the city of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 6, 2012.

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Osprey aircraft in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows U.S. Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey aircraft landing at the Futenma airbase in the city of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 6, 2012.

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Ospreys deployed in Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - Residents in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture gather Oct. 1, 2012, to protest against the deployment of six MV-22 Osprey aircraft that day at the U.S. Marines Corps' Futenma Air Station in the city.

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Ospreys deployed in Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - Residents in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture gather Oct. 1, 2012, to protest against the deployment of six MV-22 Osprey aircraft that day at the U.S. Marines Corps' Futenma Air Station in the city.

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Ospreys deployed in Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - Residents in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture gather Oct. 1, 2012, to protest against the deployment of six MV-22 Osprey aircraft that day at the U.S. Marines Corps' Futenma Air Station in the city.

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Ospreys deployed in Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - Residents in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture gather Oct. 1, 2012, to protest against the deployment of six MV-22 Osprey aircraft that day at the U.S. Marines Corps' Futenma Air Station in the city.

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Protest in Okinawa against Osprey deployment

GINOWAN, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows tens of thousands of people gathering for a rally in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 9, 2012, to protest against the planned deployment of the U.S. Osprey military aircraft at the Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in the city in the face of a series of problems involving the tilt-rotor aircraft.

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Protest in Okinawa against Osprey deployment

GINOWAN, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows tens of thousands of people gathering for a rally in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 9, 2012, to protest against the planned deployment of the U.S. Osprey military aircraft at the Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in the city in the face of a series of problems involving the tilt-rotor aircraft.

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Protest in Okinawa against Osprey deployment

GINOWAN, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows tens of thousands of people gathering for a rally in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 9, 2012, to protest against the planned deployment of the U.S. Osprey military aircraft at the Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in the city in the face of a series of problems involving the tilt-rotor aircraft.

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Protest in Okinawa against Osprey deployment

GINOWAN, Japan - Tens of thousands of people gather for a rally in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 9, 2012, to protest against the planned deployment of the U.S. Osprey military aircraft at the Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in the city in the face of a series of problems involving the tilt-rotor aircraft.

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Protest in Okinawa against Osprey deployment

GINOWAN, Japan - Tens of thousands of people gather for a rally in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 9, 2012, to protest against the planned deployment of the U.S. Osprey military aircraft at the Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in the city in the face of a series of problems involving the tilt-rotor aircraft.