Okinawa Base Won’t Find New Home by 2014 Deadline

The U.S. presence on Okinawa Island is hotly controversial, particularly among local residents.
Okinawa Base Won’t Find New Home by 2014 Deadline
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT: U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, located in the middle in the city of Ginowan, is the most controversial American military facility in Japan's Okinawa prefecture. Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images
Cindy Drukier
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TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT: U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, located in the middle in the city of Ginowan, is the most controversial American military facility in Japan's Okinawa prefecture. (Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images)
Cindy Drukier
Cindy Drukier
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Cindy Drukier is a veteran journalist, editor, and producer. She's the host of NTD's International Reporters Roundtable featured on EpochTV, and perviously host of NTD's The Nation Speaks. She's also an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her two films are available on EpochTV: "Finding Manny" and "The Unseen Crisis"