[CPEO-MEF] Futemma Marine Corps Air Station (Okinawa. Japan) closure

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Okinawa Governor-Elect Requests U.S. Base Closure in 3 Yrs

Nichi Bei Times Weekly (Japan)
November 30, 2006

TOKYO (Kyodo) - Hirokazu Nakaima, who won the recent Okinawa 
gubernatorial election, asked the central government Nov. 29 to close 
down the U.S. Marine Corps Futemma Air Station in Ginowan within the 
next three years to eliminate the risks involved in having the base next 
to a residential area.

During the meeting with Defense Agency Director General Fumio Kyuma in 
Tokyo, Nakaima urged him to accept the demand, while Kyuma responded, 
"Both Japan and the United States as well as Okinawa Prefecture must 
agree on terms" for taking such action, adding it would be difficult.

The United States and Japan reached an agreement in May to relocate the 
air station off Camp Schwab in the city of Nago.

On Nakaima's demand, the U.S. consul general in Okinawa, Kevin Maher, 
told Kyodo News, "We cannot close down (the air station) before the 
construction of replacement facilities is complete."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nichibeitimes.com/articles/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1164913800&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1

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Lenny Siegel
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