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| Japan moves to settle dispute with U.S. over Okinawa base relocation |
| 2010-04-25 |
| The Japanese government indicated Friday that it would broadly accept a plan to relocate a U.S. Marine Corps base on Okinawa, a move that could ease months of discord between the two allies, U.S. and Japanese officials said. Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada presented U.S. Ambassador John V. Roos with a proposal to settle the dispute, telling him that Japan was moving toward accepting significant parts of a 2006 deal to move the Futenma air station from the center of a city of 92,000 to a less populated part of Okinawa, the sources said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. Okada, however, suggested some changes, including altering the design of the runway at the new air station, planned for the town of Henoko, and moving parts of the Marine Corps facility to an island about 100 miles from Okinawa, the sources said. U.S. officials said they were pleased by the proposal but stressed that it was a first step and that Japanese officials would be providing more details next week. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 All things equal, IMO the CORE ISSUE here is REGIONAL + INTERNATIONAL TRUST, ACCEPTANCE OF A NUCLEAR-ARMED OR "RE-MILITARIZED" JAPAN, ALBEIT DEMOCRATIC. Wid the end of the Cold War, Tokyo now deems US Milbases in Japan as a de facto COST BURDEN. CHINA > on its part deems its "EAST/NORTH ASIA NAVAL PROBLEM", i.e. breakout from the "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" vee US, as "MAKING-OR-BREAKING" its rise to true global superpower status. THERES ALWAYS 2012 + Pert(s)-forecasted MASSIVE SOLAR STORMS. To wit, WMF > SEPTEMBER 22, 2012: US ECONOMIC, GEOPOL POWER MAY BE HEAVILY DAMAGED BY ANTICIPATED MASSIVE SOLAR STORMS. UP TO 1.0MILYUHN AMERS DEAD AFTER ONE YEAR. US DEGRADED TO "THIRD WORLD NATION" STATUS AFTER 4-10 YEAR RECOVERY PERIOD? IOW, US = THIRD WORLD NATION? after Year 2022-2025 [ r.o.]??? Year 2022-2025 is AFTER the projected Year 2018-2020 timeline [MSM-Net] for US deployment of reliable/effective GMD-TMD around the World. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-04-25 23:26 |
| #3 Germany has been working on how to tax American expat incomes since 1946 or so. Democracies aren't good at this kind of thing, that only a few petty bureaucrats in a corner of the 27th floor of the secondary annex building really care about. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-04-25 09:46 |
| #2 Coming on to 65 years since we ended it. Your point? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-04-25 07:12 |
| #1 59 years since they started it................... |
| Posted by: 746 2010-04-25 02:28 |