Okinawa Airfield

Okinawa Airfield is a location in Okinawa that appears in Yakuza 3. It is part of the American military base on the island.
==History==
Okinawa Airfield is based on part of Kadena Air Base, a real-life American military base on the island. Prior to the events of Yakuza 3, the American CIA and Japanese Defence Minister Ryuzo Tamiya came up with a fake "expansion plan" of the base to root out an arms smuggling ring called Black Monday.
===Yakuza 3===
Joji Kazama takes Kazuma Kiryu and Haruka Sawamura to Okinawa Airfield, where a secret military aircraft is waiting for them on the runway. Kiryu surmises that this aircraft is how Kazama managed to travel between Tokyo and Okinawa quickly enough to shoot both Shigeru Nakahara and Daigo Dojima. Kazama says that the jet is able to travel from Okinawa Airfield to Tokyo's Yokota Airfield in the space of just under an hour, less than half that of a commercial flight. Kiryu and Haruka subsequently board the jet to get to Touto University Hospital in time to save Daigo from Yoshitaka Mine.
==Trivia==
* Though the military base goes unnamed in game, it can be presumed that the airfield represents Kadena Air Base, one of the United States' primary military installations in Japan, alongside Yokota Air Base, which is located near Tokyo. The two bases are just over 1,500 km (940 mi) apart. There are currently no known American aircraft in service (military or otherwise) with 3 or more seats that are capable of travelling this distance in under an hour.
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Category:Yakuza 3 Locations
Category:Okinawa