TOKYO: Thousands of demonstrators formed a human chain around Japan’s parliament in Tokyo, protesting the planned construction of a new US airbase on the southern island of Okinawa.
The protesters, who organisers said numbered about 15,000, surrounded the parliament building holding banners reading “No to Henoko”, in the latest rally against the controversial base.
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