Peace march held in Okinawa ahead of 50th anniv. of return to Japan

A peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced was held Saturday in the southern island prefecture, a day before the 50th anniversary of its reversion to Japan.For the first time since taking office in October last year, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited Okinawa to mark the anniversary.The prefecture that is geographically closer to Taiwan than to Tokyo is home to 70 percent of the total acreage exclusively used by U.S. military installations in Japan, despite accounting for only 0.6 percent of the country's total land area.The 9-kilometer march, t…READ FULL ARTICLE