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2 dead after 2 boats carrying students capsize off US base construction site in southern Japan
Two boats capsized off Henoko during a peace education trip, causing two deaths and multiple injuries amid a high surf advisory, officials said.
- Two boats carrying 21 people, including 18 students from a Kyoto high school, capsized off Henoko, near a US military base in Okinawa, Japan, leaving two people dead.
- The dead were a 17-year-old female student, Tomoka Takeishi, who was wearing a life jacket, and the 71-year-old captain, Hajime Kanai, of one of the boats.
- The students were visiting the area for peace education, not protesting the relocation of the US Marine base to Henoko from Ginowan, a plan delayed for nearly 30 years.
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2 dead, including girl, after boats carrying students capsize off Japan
Two boats carrying 21 people capsized Monday off Henoko, a controversial relocation site for a U.S. military base off Japan's southern island of Okinawa, throwing all into the water and leaving two of them dead, officials said. The Japan Coast Guard said 18 of them were students from a Kyoto high…
The young people visited the island of Okinawa as part of a peace education program to learn about the situation surrounding the construction of the controversial US military base.
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Leaning Left7Leaning Right7Center7Last UpdatedBias Distribution34% Left, 33% Center, 33% Right
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- 34% of the sources lean Left, 33% of the sources are Center, 33% of the sources lean Right
34% Left
L 34%
C 33%
R 33%
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