More than 90,000 people rallied April 25 on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa, demanding removal of the U.S. Marine Futenma air base there. The demonstrators called for scrapping a 2006 agreement between Washington and Tokyo to move U.S. military operations from the base, located in a densely populated urban area of Okinawa, to a new base to be constructed by 2014 in a rural coastal area of the island. More than half of the 47,000 U.S. troops stationed in Japan are on Okinawa.

—BRIAN WILLIAMS