NAHA, Japan, June 19 (UPI) -- Tens of thousands of Japanese people on Sunday demanded the removal of all U.S. bases from their region, the largest outcry on the issue in two decades.
The protest, in Okinawa, had been billed as a memorial for a 20-year-old woman found dead last month, The New York Times reported. A U.S. Marine veteran working there as a civilian contractor is charged in connection with her death.