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People hold placards denouncing the deployment of US military aircraft Osprey MV-22 during a demonstration in front of the Iwakuni City Hall in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi prefecture in western Japan, on July 22, 2012, one day before the arrival of a cargo ship carrying the aircraft to the US Marine base in the city. The Osprey, which is a hybrid aircraft with rotors that allow it take off like a helicopter and engines that can tilt forward, enabling it to fly like an airplane at greater speed than a chopper, was plagued with problems in its early years, in the 1990s but officials say the technical glitches have been overcome. Washington formally informed Tokyo in late June it would go ahead with a planned deployment of the Osprey aircraft at the marine corps airbase of Futenma near Naha on Okinawa island in October. JAPAN OUT AFP PHOTO / Jiji Press