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A Japanese Cabinet minister this week gave Okinawa’s governor until Wednesday to approve design changes for a coastal airfield planned to replace Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.
The preponderance of U.S. military bases on Okinawa are a threat to world peace and make the island a potential target, Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki told a United Nations panel.
The governor of Japan's Okinawa sought international backing at a U.N. session Monday for his opposition to a plan to relocate a U.S. military base within the southern prefecture. But Gov
Japanese police on Okinawa are looking for the driver of a car with license plates assigned to U.S. forces who collided with another car, injuring five people, and then fled the scene.
The Marine Corps says that three Okinawa V-22 Ospreys that diverted from scheduled flight paths due to "caution indications" in the cockpit did not appear to suffer from a clutch issue that has plagued the service's fleet and caused at least one fatal crash.