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Okinawa Prefectural Assembly lodges protest against Japanese and U.S. governments after U.S. military helicopter makes emergency landing, calls for “a stop to flights over private property”

Okinawa Prefectural Assembly lodges protest against Japanese and U.S. governments after U.S. military helicopter makes emergency landing, calls for “a stop to flights over private property”

June 28, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo

 

The Okinawa Prefectural Assembly (Noboru Akamine, speaker) unanimously passed a resolution and opinion statement June 28 at their regular session in protest after a U.S. military helicopter made an emergency landing on Tsuken Island in Uruma on June 2, demanding a halt to all U.S. military flights and training exercises in the airspace over private property. The protest resolution was addressed to the U.S. to people such as the U.S. ambassador in...