Okinawa urges dropping base transfer plan ahead of 50th return anniversary.
I would like to share the contents of the article in The Japan Today dated May 8.
Okinawa Prefecture has called on the central government to scrap a plan to relocate a U.S. air base within the southern Japanese prefecture in its new proposals for creating a "peaceful and prosperous" future released Saturday ahead of the 50th anniversary of its reversion to Japan later this month.