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"Prime Minister Abe, who is the second perpetrator of the murder case? You are", Tamaki Ai, a student of University of the Ryukyus, said during Sunday's massive rally in Naha, capital city of Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa.
Tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets of Okinawa in Japan's southernmost Prefecture on Sunday to express their ongoing anger at the disproportionate presence of U.S. military personnel on the island and the crimes committed by them, in particular the brutal rape and murder of a local women by a base-linked worker recently.
A Philippine columnist on Saturday called on the incoming Philippine government to drop a defense pact between the Philippines and the United States, arguing it was reducing the country into one big U.S. military base.
U.S. President Barack Obama extended "sincerest condolences and deepest regrets" over the murder of a Japanese woman by a U.S. military-affiliated civilian here late Wednesday at a meeting with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe.
Some 4,000 people in Okinawa rallied in front of the U.S. Kadena Air Base on Wednesday, protesting against the murder of a local woman by a U.S. military-affiliated civilian.
Around 1,000 protesters marched in Naha, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture, on Sunday in protest against the relocation of a controversial U.S. military base and demanded the closure of all bases on the island.
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