Abe heckled at ceremony in Okinawa on 70th anniversary of battle

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was given an unwelcome greeting by the people of Okinawa at a ceremony commemorating the battle for the island which cost 10's of thousands of lives.   Protesters greeted Abe over his insistence that U.S. Marine Corp Futenma air station be moved not off of the island but to rural Henoko.   The Japanese government treats the people of Okinawa like shit.  Insisting that the island host the majority of U.S. forces stationed in Japan in one of the countries smallest prefectures. 

Abe and his ruling Liberal Democratic Party have this unrealized dream ( more like a fool's earned.) that Japan must be stored to the stature it held prior to World War II.  They truly believe that Japan was and continues to be humiliated by the Constitution imposed by the U.S. following Japan's surrender at the end of the war.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was heckled Tuesday at a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa, the bloodiest episode in the Pacific War, as anger flared over the U.S. military’s continuing presence.
In a highly-charged ceremony on Okinawa also attended by U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, Abe was openly heckled by locals angry at the size of the United States’ presence on the subtropical islands.
Shouts of “Go home!” could be heard as the prime minister took the podium. It is relatively unusual for a Japanese prime minister to be jeered by the public.
Abe, who appeared rattled, told the audience Japan had for decades enjoyed the dividend of peace after the horrors of World War II.
  

“People in Okinawa have long been asked to carry a big burden for our security,” he said. “We will continue to do our best to reduce it.”
Okinawan Gov Takeshi Onaga was warmly applauded by the 5,000-strong crowd after using his speech to denounce “the heavy burden” of American bases in Okinawa, host to more than half of the 47,000 US service personnel in Japan.
“Some 73.8% of U.S. military facilities in Japan are still concentrated in our prefecture, which makes up only 0.6% of the country’s land area,” he said.