"However, both Washington and Tokyo are facing an unusually strong
pushback from many of the 1.4 million residents on Okinawa, including a
large demonstration and acts of civil disobedience of a sort not seen
here in decades. A rally last month drew as many as 100,000 people, the
largest anti-base demonstration on the island since a similar-size one
that followed the rape of an Okinawan schoolgirl by three American
servicemen in 1995."