Japan's Okinawa votes against controversial US base move: exit polls

Voters on the Japanese island of Okinawa have rejected the relocation of a controversial US military base, according to official results from a non-binding referendum Sunday.With 99 percent of ballots counted, some 72 percent had voted against the move with 19 percent in favour, according to the local government.Opponents of the relocation -- some 434,000 -- had turned out in sufficient numbers to meet the threshold required for Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki to "respect" the result of the symbol