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Japan’s Okinawa drops opposition to hosting crash-prone US Osprey aircraft
Japan’s Okinawa drops opposition to hosting crash-prone US Osprey aircraft
Okinawa Governor Genta Koja said on Friday he accepts the deployment of US military MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft at the Futenma air station, reversing the southern Japan prefecture’s long-standing opposition to their presence. Previous prefectural governments, under governors critical of US bases, had opposed the deployment of the tilt-rotor aircraft since before they were first stationed at…