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Eugene

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Sun Jan 19, 2014, 08:58 PM Jan 2014

Okinawa: Nago re-elects anti-US airbase mayor

Source: BBC

19 January 2014 Last updated at 17:42 GMT

Okinawa: Nago re-elects anti-US airbase mayor

A Japanese city mayor opposed to a plan to relocate a US military base on the island of Okinawa to his area has been re-elected.

Susumu Inamine told his supporters that the poll was about one issue - the base - and the people of Nago had spoken.

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The US and Japan first agreed in 1996 to shift the Futenma Air Station from a more congested part of Okinawa to Nago.

Mr Inamine's victory is the latest setback to the long-stalled move. He has vowed to block construction of the new base by denying permits for the project.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25802276
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Okinawa: Nago re-elects anti-US airbase mayor (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2014 OP
And so a move to relocate GP6971 Jan 2014 #1
There are already a lot of USMC in the NTA. MADem Jan 2014 #2

GP6971

(31,013 posts)
1. And so a move to relocate
Sun Jan 19, 2014, 09:15 PM
Jan 2014

to a more remote area is drawing opposition?????? Read get the Marines / US troops off the island.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
2. There are already a lot of USMC in the NTA.
Sun Jan 19, 2014, 09:38 PM
Jan 2014

They're poorly behaved--or have been in the past; a few rapes and as I recall, at least one murder (of a cab driver) and that set the community against them. It's very difficult to make amends for that kind of thing.

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