Perhaps because local soccer team FC Ryukyu's poor performance last season earned them a yellow card from fans, 90,000 protesters on Okinawa also decided to borrow from the sport. By adopting yellow as its color, the largest rally on the island in years sent a warning to Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama for his inertia over the U.S.'s Futenma airbase. The huge area taken up by Futenma and other bases in Okinawa home to some 25,000 U.S. troops has made them unpopular, as have crimes such as rapes and robberies committed by service members against locals. In...
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