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A military helicopter flies over the waters of Agana Bay in Hagatna, Guam, on Aug. 10, 2015. Residents can expect to see more military aircraft in the skies above the U.S. territory as base realignment in the Pacific shifts more Marines to Guam from Okinawa, Japan.
Tiffany Tompkins-Condie
McClatchy
A Japanese soldier explains a water filtration center during a joint exercise between the U.S. Marines and the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force in Okinawa, on July 23, 2015. Growing defense spending will enable the construction of a headquarters for a new Japanese Air Self-Defense Force squadron.
Tiffany Tompkins-Condie
McClatchy
Satoshi Yamamoto and his daughter, Ayaka, 13, watch aircraft take off and land at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, from a roadside stand's observation tower on July 27, 2015. Yamamoto worries that China could take over Okinawa if the American bases weren't there.
Tiffany Tompkins-Condie
McClatchy
Civilian medical personnel participate in a joint exercise between the U.S. Marines and the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force in Okinawa, on July 23, 2015.
Tiffany Tompkins-Condie
McClatchy
The American Naval ship Ashland, a dock landing ship, faces the Japanese ship Murroto at the newly refurbished Victor Wharf on Naval base Guam on Aug. 5, 2015. The Pentagon and Japan are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on harbor improvements to handle more ships and Marines.
Tiffany Tompkins-Condie
McClatchy
Aircraft commander Capt. Jason McCulley sits in the cockpit of a B-52 bomber at Andersen Air Force Base in northern Guam where construction is underway to modernize the base, located at the northern end of the island. Photo taken on Aug. 6, 2015.
Tiffany Tompkins-Condie
McClatchy
A B-52 bomber sits on the tarmac at Andersen Air Force Base in northern Guam where they fly to demonstrate U.S. air power in the Pacific near contested islands in the East China Sea that China and Japan have both claimed. Photo taken Aug. 6, 2015.
Tiffany Tompkins-Condie
McClatchy
A Japanese Coast Guard boat and vessel sail alongside a Japanese activists' fishing boat, not in photo, warning the activists away from a group of disputed islands called Diaoyu by China and Senkaku by Japan on Aug. 18, 2013.
Emily Wang
AP
Approximately 1,500 people gather in front of the Okinawan Prefectural Government offices in Naha, to protest a security bill endorsed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to beef up Japanese military powers on July 31, 2015. The group marched down Kokusai Street, chanting and holding signs.
Tiffany Tompkins-Condie
McClatchy
Miyumi Shiroma takes the stage in front of approximately 1,500 people gathered in front of the Okinawan Prefectural Government offices in Naha to protest a security bill endorsed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to beef up Japanese military powers on July 31, 2015. Shiroma believes military expansion in the area will make Okinawa a target for a military attack.
Tiffany Tompkins-Condie
McClatchy
As people gathered in front of the Okinawan Prefectural Government offices in Naha to protest a security bill endorsed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japanese police officers surround ultra-right wing protestors who support Abe and were trying to gain attention by playing loud music and yelling through a loudspeaker around the protestors on July 31, 2015.
Tiffany Tompkins-Condie
McClatchy
Pagat, culturally important land for Guam as an ancient Chamorro Village site, was once going to be subject to restricted access by the military for a nearby firing range; a shift of plans to another location on the island leaves the site in its present condition. Photo taken on Aug. 8, 2015.
Tiffany Tompkins-Condie
McClatchy
Investors pulled out of large-scale construction of several residential towers along Guam's coastline when original military buildup plans were scaled back to reduce the projected number of military personnel and their families living on the island. The original plan would have sent 8,600 troops and 9,000 military family members; a lawsuit against the plan resulted in a plan for less than 5,000. Photo taken on Aug. 9, 2015.
Tiffany Tompkins-Condie
McClatchy
Leevin Camacho, 37, an attorney and founding member of We Are Guahan, is part of a group of Guamanians who filed a lawsuit against the Defense Department challenging a proposal that would have restricted access to a protected site and brought thousands of troops and their families to Guam. Photo taken on Aug. 8, 2015.
Tiffany Tompkins-Condie
McClatchy
Guamanian Democratic Speaker Judith Won Pat discusses the environmental impact study of an increased military presence on Guam on Aug. 7, 2015. Won Pat says the U.S. territory is “out of sight, out of mind from the rest of the world.”
Tiffany Tompkins-Condie
McClatchy
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