Some 65,000 protesters gathered on Okinawa in Japan on Sunday to protest U.S. military bases after an American man was suspected of killing a Japanese woman. Around a fifth of the island is still under U.S. military control after the American occupation ended in 1972. Lieutenant General Lawrence D. Nicholson, commander of the U.S. Marines there, told Reuters that the U.S. may return a 10,000 acre patch of land by next year, which would be the biggest hand back since 1972.
