Always remembered: People offering prayers near the site where 20-year-old Rina Shimabukuro was found murdered in the village of Onna. — EPA
NAHA: Thousands of people gathered on the Japanese island of Okinawa in one of the biggest demonstrations in two decades against US military bases following the arrest of an American suspected of murdering a local woman.
The protest marks a new low for the United States and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in their relations with the island and threatens plans to have the US Marines Futenma air station moved to a less populous part of the island.
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