In Japan's Okinawa, impasse over US air base fuels deepening tensions - Yahoo NewsThe US military presence on the small Japanese island of Okinawa is in as much doubt now as it has been in nearly two decades, as local residents step up their confrontation with the central government over the relocation of a US air base.In 1996, following the rape of a schoolgirl in Okinawa by three US soldiers, the US military agreed to move Futenma, a sprawling Marine Corps base in the crowded
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