70,000 gather to protest U.S. base transfer in Okinawa

A huge crowd gathered in Okinawa on Saturday to protest the Japanese government's controversial relocation of a U.S. air base within the island prefecture.Some 70,000 people took part in the rally at a park in the prefectural capital of Naha where they adopted a resolution urging the central government to abandon the plan to transfer U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from densely populated Ginowan to the coastal area of Henoko in Nago, according to an organizer.At the start of the gathering, the participants offered a silent prayer to the late governor of Okinawa, Takeshi Onaga, who die…READ FULL ARTICLE