GINOWAN, Okinawa Prefecture A sense of urgency over peace in troubled times filled the packed crowd at an annual rally here to mark the prefecture’s return to Japanese sovereignty in 1972 after 27 years of U.S. rule.
NAHA Hundreds of peace activists from around Japan staged a march here on May 14 to call for scrapping U.S. military bases in Okinawa, a day before the 50th anniversary of the southernmost prefecture’s reversion to Japan.