Okinawans demand end to US military flights over schools

On the morning of December 7, a group of one-year-old students were getting ready to play outside at their nursery school on the Japanese island of Okinawa when the sound of a low-flying helicopter and a loud bang rang out.

"Some children let out a cry," recalls Eriko Miyagi, a childcare worker and mother of one of the students at the Midorigaoka nursery school.  Read more.