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Japan

Okinawa demands halt to US flights

A resolution demanding all US military flights over schools and hospitals be suspended was unanimously adopted by the Okinawa prefectural assembly on Thursday. The move by the prefectural parliament of Okinawa in Japan's southernmost prefecture follows a window falling from a US military helicopter last week and landing on the grounds of an elementary school narrowly missing children taking a sports class there.