As the Okinawa administration reported, local companies are suffering huge losses because people are refusing to travel to the island, fearing terrorist attacks against US military personnel stationed there. Okinawa also felt the outflow of tourists after the series of terrorist attacks in the US on September 11, 2001. At that time, about 250,000 Japanese and foreign tourists canceled their trips to the island in total. As RIA Novosti notes, Okinawa, which accounts for 0.6% of the territory of the Japanese Islands, is home to 75% of American military bases in Japan.
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