USFJ in Okinawa busy in preparations

Akahata reported on October 2 that F-15 fighters and KC-135 mid-air
refuelers are frequently making landings and take-offs at the U.S. Kadena
Air Base in Okinawa.
At night on and around the base, U.S. helicopters are making low-flights
to check passers-by with search lights, threatening them.

At Naha Airport, intensified baggage checks caused a sharp drop in the
number of tourists from the mainland, especially group tours by high school
students, which totaled 9,000.

On Iejima Island, the U.S. Army's Green Beret and the Marines conducted
night parachuting drills.

In the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly, Japanese Communist Party's Hokama
Hisako called on Governor Inamine Keiichi to request the U.S. government to
stop the planned military retaliation against terrorists and to refrain from
using U.S. bases in Okinawa to this end. The governor declined to do so.
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