Protesters mark 1 year since U.S. base construction began in Okinawa

Around 600 protesters staged a rally at the relocation site of a U.S. air base in Okinawa on Wednesday, one year after construction work started there.The protesters staged a sit-in in front of a gate of the neighboring U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Schwab and paddled their canoes on waters surrounding the construction site in Nago, northeastern Okinawa, with some of them raising placards saying, "U.S. Corps, get out of Okinawa."Local police forcefully shoved aside some 400 protesters who gathered at the gate to block vehicles entering the base for construction work."Why does the central governme…READ FULL ARTICLE