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5-year anniversary of March 5, 2006 Okinawan rally against the plan for a U.S. mega-base in Henoko & Oura Bay
(Photo: Futenma-Henoko Action Network)
35,000 Okinawans gathered in Ginowan City on March 5, 2006 to protest an earlier version of the plan for a U.S. mega-base in Henoko and Oura Bay.
A coalition of peace & environmentalist citizen groups fought from 1996 to 2005 against a 1996 proposal for an offshore, pontoon-supported structure over Oura Bay’s coral reef. This plan was abandoned because of environmental challenges and unceasing protests.
The newest plan (following a 2006 U.S.-Japan agreement) would also destroy the coral reef habitat of the Okinawa dugong.