People hold banners as they listen to a speaker during a rally against a new US military base in Okinawa, Japan's nouthernmost prefecture, in front of the National Diet in Tokyo on February 21, 2016. Several hundred people took part in the rally denouncing the central government's plan of constructing a US Marine air base in the remote Henoko part of Okinawa island, to replace the existing Futenma facility located in a heavily populated area. AFP PHOTO / Toru YAMANAKA
TOKYO: Thousands of protesters formed a human chain around Japan’s parliament Sunday in protest at the planned construction of a new US base on the southern island of Okinawa.
Some 28,000 people, according to local media, surrounded the building holding banners reading “No more US bases in Okinawa” and “Follow the will of Okinawa”.
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