Tuesday 21 June 2011

US, Japan delay Okinawa plan but hold firm (AFP)

(L-R) Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pose for photographs before a meeting in Washington of the US-Japan Security Consultative Committee (SCC).(AFP/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)AFP - The United States and Japan acknowledged Tuesday that they would miss a 2014 deadline for a controversial shift of a US base in Okinawa, but stood firmly behind the plan in the face of opposition.



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