"It Is Regrettable that This Could Lead to a Serious Accident": Vice Governor of Okinawa Protests to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defense Bureau Following Bag Drop Accident From US Military Helicopter

Regarding the accident in which a UH-1 utility helicopter belonging to the U.S. military's Futenma Air Base inadvertently dropped a bag containing flammable signal flares and other items, Okinawa Vice Governor Takeshu Ikeda summoned Ambassador Miyagawa Manabu of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Okinawa Office and Okinawa Defense Bureau Director Ito Shinya to the Okinawa Prefectural Government Office on the 19th to strongly protest, saying, "This…