THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 8, 2021 at 15:20 JST
Riot police remove a protester from a road leading to a construction site for U.S. military helipads in Higashi, northern Okinawa Prefecture, in July 2016. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
NAGOYA--The Nagoya High Court ordered a former prefectural police chief to pay about 1.1 million yen ($9,846) to the prefecture for “illegally” deploying riot police to Okinawa Prefecture to quell anti-U.S. military protests. [Read More]
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