By SOKICHI KURODA/ Staff Writer
January 13, 2020 at 07:30 JST
Protesters march on May 15, 1972, in Naha to oppose Okinawa's return to Japan without relocating U.S. bases while tearing a banner to celebrate the reversion on the day. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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