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Okinawa seeks Tokyo’s help lowering tensions with China

FILE - Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2018. Japan should do more for peaceful diplomacy with China and not just focus on arms deterrence as tensions rise around Taiwan to the west of Okinawa, said the southern island prefecture's governor Friday, May 6, 2022, demanding further reduction of its security burden and its risk hosting U.S. military there. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File) In this image made from video, Japan's southern island of Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki speaks online Friday, May 6, 2022, from the prefectural capital of Naha ahead Okinawa's 50th anniversary of its reversion to Japan on May 15. Japan should do more for peaceful diplomacy with China and not just focus on arms deterrence as tensions rise around Taiwan to the west of Okinawa, said the southern island prefecture's governor Friday, demanding further reduction of its security burden and its risk hosting U.S. military there. (Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan via AP)
Okinawa seeks Tokyo’s help lowering tensions with China