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This incident was followed by a protest of 10,000 Okinawans calling to stop all military activities on the island. [6] In June 2016, estimates of 65,000 Okinawans protested the rape and murder of a 20-year-old woman by a former U.S. Marine. Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga vouched for the removal of U.S. forces as a result of the incident. [8]
The site of the riot roughly 15 years prior, c. 1955. The Koza riot (コザ暴動, Koza bōdō) was a violent and spontaneous protest against the US military presence in Okinawa, which occurred on the night of December 20, 1970, into the morning of the following day.
Onaga and a majority of Okinawa residents want the base moved off the island.", commented USA Today. [73] On 14 December 2018, landfill on a controversial new U.S. military runway that will one day facilitate the relocation and closure of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma began in Okinawa following years of protests and legal challenges. [74]
Japan’s government protested Friday to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo over at least two sexual assault cases involving American servicemembers on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa which were ...
The protest marked a new low for the United States and Japan and threatens plans to move the U.S. Marines air station to a less populous part of the island. Thousands protest U.S. bases on Okinawa ...
Nago, Okinawa Prefecture: ... France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, ... protests, and demonstrations; and the two- or three-day event ...
Dozens of students at a U.S. military middle school in Germany walked out of class in protest of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's dismantling of DEI policies during his visit to the country this ...
The Okinawa Prefectural Assembly passed a resolution to protest against the actions of the U.S. military. [14] On October 21 the anti-base movement reached its apex, a rally was held in Ginowan City to protest the incident and the US military bases. [15] About 85,000 residents participated in the rally, including the Governor of Okinawa ...