A month after Jinshiro Motoyama’s five-day hunger strike forced a referendum over a new US military runway on Japan’s island of Okinawa, he came to bid farewell to a knot of protesters trying to block trucks heading for the building site. The referendum showed 70 percent of voters opposed expansion of a US Marines base […]
Futenma air station
Outnumbered and elderly, Okinawa protesters oppose new U.S. military runway
A month after Jinshiro Motoyama’s five-day hunger strike forced a referendum over a new U.S. military runway on Japan’s island of Okinawa, he came to bid farewell to a knot of protesters trying to block trucks heading for the building site. The referendum showed 70 percent of voters opposed expansion of a U.S. Marines base […]