United States decided not to anger the Japanese and declined to exercise a MV-22 Osprey on Okinawa

At the gates of the U.S. military bases in Japan are regularly protests

The U.S. military command has decided to abandon the exercises with konvertplanov MV-22 Osprey on the Japanese island of Okinawa to avoid causing new protests of local residents.
Decided to spend three weeks of maneuvers in the Pacific island of Guam.
Recall, at the gates of U.S. military bases in Japan are regularly protests. So, to prevent the Americans moved his base to konvertoplany Iwakuni Air Base, U.S. Marine Corps base Futemma, October 1, the Japanese blocked the entrances to own cars. Calls to the local police voluntarily remove cars from the road or have failed, so the guards of the order had to drive to the place of incident, heavy equipment and take away their truck.
Konvertoplan MV-22 Osprey - a joint development Boeing and Bell, a combination of an airplane with a helicopter. Independent type of aircraft with fixed wing, having the opportunity to turn the engine (usually propellers) 90 degrees, so that it can land and take off vertically.
In September, the U.S. government managed to persuade the Japanese, and get permission to place these "hybrids" on U.S. military bases in Japan, according to ITAR-TASS.