Anger simmers over Okinawa base burden

US military base in central Okinawa, with a residential area in the background The Japanese island of Okinawa is the reluctant host of dozens of US military bases - and a row over moving an airfield has sparked an angry stand-off. Shuri Castle stands on a hill above the Okinawan capital, Naha. It used to be the seat of the Ryukyu kings, who ruled over an archipelago south of Japan and north of Tai

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An Iha victory could force the Japanese government to choose between over-ruling its own citizens and their democratically-elected representative or jeopardising its key security relationship.

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"When we protested in April, they thought we were protesting about the US military but that wasn't it," he said. "It was more about the questionable treatment we are getting from the Japanese government."Naoya Iju, of the prefectural government, says that many people think that Okinawans are being t