Okinawa rallies against US bases after woman’s murder

In Japan, thousands of people have protested on the island of Okinawa against the presence of US military bases. It’s the latest in a string of demonstrations following the arrest of an American suspected of murdering a 20-year-old local woman. The protest, one of the biggest in two decades, marks a new low for US-Japanese relations and threatens plans to have the US Marines air station moved to a less populous part of the island. That plan has been on hold since residents living near the prop… READ MORE