JAPAN LOOKS AT NEW BASE RELOCATION OPTION
Submitted by admin on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 00:00
Futenma troops would move to new Okinawa site
By Therese Hart HAGATNA, Guam (Pacific Daily News, ) – The Japanese government has conveyed to the United States that Tokyo will not go through with an existing plan to relocate a U.S. Marine base in Okinawa.
Citing several Japanese-U.S. sources, Kyodo News reported that Japan has now begun considering in earnest an alternative plan to reclaim an area between the U.S. Navy facility on White Beach in Uruma and Tsuken Island off the main island of Okinawa.