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People stage sit-in for removal of Futemma Air station

TOKYO, Japan - Antibase protesters launch a four-day sit-in near parliament in Tokyo's Nagatacho political district on April 6, 2010, demanding the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station be moved out of Okinawa Prefecture.

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People stage sit-in for removal of Futemma Air station

TOKYO, Japan - Antibase protesters stage a rally to demand the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station be moved out of Okinawa Prefecture in front of the prime minister's office on April 6, 2010, ahead of launching later in the day a four-day sit-in near parliament in Tokyo's Nagatacho political district.

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Gov't handling of Okinawa's antibase fight remains open to question

A U.S. military Osprey aircraft flies above the U.S. military's Northern Training Area in Okinawa as people stage protests on Dec. 23, 2016. Protest activities have scaled down since the Japanese government finished building new helipads and, in return, achieved the partial return of the land in the training area from the U.S. military on Dec. 22. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't handling of Okinawa's antibase fight remains open to question

Masatsugu Isa, a 54-year-old assembly member of Higashi village in Okinawa, stands on Dec. 23, 2016, near a gate that leads to helipads the Japanese government has built for the U.S. military inside the Northern Training Area. He continues sit-in protests in the Takae community. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People stage sit-in for removal of Futemma Air station

TOKYO, Japan - Antibase protesters launch a four-day sit-in near parliament in Tokyo's Nagatacho political district on April 6, 2010, demanding the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station be moved out of Okinawa Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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People stage sit-in for removal of Futemma Air station

TOKYO, Japan - Antibase protesters stage a rally to demand the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station be moved out of Okinawa Prefecture in front of the prime minister's office on April 6, 2010, ahead of launching later in the day a four-day sit-in near parliament in Tokyo's Nagatacho political district. (Kyodo)

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Protesters welcome new antibase Okinawa governor

People gather in front of the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Schwab in the Henoko coastal district in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 1, 2018 to protest against the controversial relocation of a U.S. military base to the district a day after antibase candidate Denny Tamaki won the Okinawa gubernatorial election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protesters welcome new antibase Okinawa governor

People gather in front of the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Schwab in the Henoko coastal district in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 1, 2018 to protest against the controversial relocation of a U.S. military base to the district a day after antibase candidate Denny Tamaki won the Okinawa gubernatorial election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protesters welcome new antibase Okinawa governor

People gather in front of the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Schwab in the Henoko coastal district in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 1, 2018 to protest against the controversial relocation of a U.S. military base to the district a day after antibase candidate Denny Tamaki won the Okinawa gubernatorial election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Antibase Tamaki wins Okinawa governor race

Denny Tamaki, who won the Okinawa gubernatorial election on Sept. 30, 2018, with his anti-U.S. base policy pledge, waves in a street in Okinawa city the following day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Antibase Okinawa activist to talk about "undue oppression" at U.N.

Hiroji Yamashiro, a prominent anti-U.S. base activist in Okinawa, holds a press conference at the prefectural government hall on May 16, 2017. Yamashiro, 64, who was detained for around five months from October for what his supporters call minor offenses during base protest activities, is scheduled to deliver a speech at a meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva in mid-June. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prominent antibase activist released in Okinawa

Hiroji Yamashiro (front), a peace activist charged with forcible obstruction of business and assault in connection with his opposition to U.S. military bases in Okinawa Prefecture, celebrates with his supporters after being released from five months' detention in Naha on March 18, 2017. His release follows a ruling by the Naha District Court the previous day to grant bail to Yamashiro. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court grants bail to prominent antibase activist in Okinawa

Supporters of Hiroji Yamashiro, a peace activist charged with forcible obstruction of business and assault in connection with his opposition to U.S. military bases in Okinawa Prefecture, demonstrate in front of the Naha District Court on March 17, 2017, calling for his immediate release from five months' detention. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court grants bail to prominent antibase activist in Okinawa

Supporters of Hiroji Yamashiro, a peace activist charged with forcible obstruction of business and assault in connection with his opposition to U.S. military bases in Okinawa Prefecture, demonstrate in front of the Naha District Court on March 17, 2017, calling for his immediate release from five months' detention. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court grants bail to prominent antibase activist in Okinawa

The Naha District Court in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa holds on March 17, 2017, the first court hearing for Hiroji Yamashiro, a peace activist charged with forcible obstruction of business and assault in connection with his opposition to U.S. military bases in the prefecture. The court granted bail to the 64-year-old head of the Okinawa Peace Action Center after he pleaded not guilty. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa leader to visit U.S. to convey antibase stance to Trump gov't

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga, seen in this undated photo, will visit Washington soon after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20, 2017, according to the Okinawa prefectural government. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo