[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: Japan Status of Forces Agreement

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

DPJ eyes SOFA environment tack

Kyodo News/Japan Times
August 27, 2009

If the Democratic Party of Japan gains power in Sunday's Lower House 
election, it plans to propose to the United States revising the 
bilateral Status of Forces Agreement to include a clause on dealing with 
environmental pollution or destruction at U.S. bases in Japan, DPJ 
members said Wednesday.

The intended clause is aimed at allowing the central and local 
governments to carry out on-site inspections of the environmental 
pollution or destruction, and obliging U.S. forces to restore the 
situation to the original state, they said.

The DPJ plans to urge the United States to accept the clause, as the 
SOFA between the United States and South Korea already has one, 
according to party members.

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For the entire article, see
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090827a2.html

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Lenny Siegel
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