Japan's Okinawa votes against controversial US base move

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.Some 72 percent voted against the move with 19 percent in favour from a 52 percent turnout, the local government said.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 symbolic referendum, it said