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| Okinawa City Urges Tokyo to Scrap Plan | |
| 2005-11-22 | |
Tokyo and Washington are expected to agree on a schedule by March 2006 to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station on Okinawa and make operational changes at bases in the southern Kagoshima prefecture and another near Tokyo. On Monday, the Nago city assembly in Okinawa adopted a resolution urging Tokyo to reject a plan to relocate Futenma Air Station to Nago from nearby Ginowan city, said city assembly official Takafumi Tomoyose. "There are concerns about the impact on residents' lives, such as noise. The city assembly cannot overlook oppositions expressed" by residents, the assembly said in a statement. The city planned to deliver its resolution to the Japanese and U.S. governments later Monday. Meanwhile, Sakae Yamashita, the mayor of Kaya in Kagoshima, met with Japanese defense chief Fukushiro Nukaga and rejected a plan to transfer 12 refueling aircraft from Futenma to a naval base in the city, Kyodo News agency said. Also Monday, Zama city Mayor Katsuji Hoshino handed a resolution to Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe rejecting a plan to use the U.S. Army base there as the operational headquarters for Japan's Self Defense Forces, the city assembly said. The changes are part of an interim pact on U.S. forces in Japan that Tokyo and Washington agreed to last month. The plan would also allow the U.S. Navy to station a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan for the first time. The interim pact drew strong criticism in Japan, but the government has said it wants to implement it quickly. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 They whined and cried to go back to Mother Japan. The American's unlike the Russians returned it to Japanese sovereignty. Good thing. Otherwise they'd have an unending number of injunctions from some court in San Francisco demanding another and another environmental study till they could identify some obscure sub-sub-sub classification of a weed or insect to stop the whole process for decades. |
| Posted by: Grerert Shuth2004 2005-11-22 12:17 |
| #1 I am pretty sure the central government is going to tell them to shut up or start learning to speak Chinese. It's a done deal. |
| Posted by: Mahou Sensei Negi-bozu 2005-11-22 02:11 |