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US troop burden on Okinawa 'reeds easing'

China Daily | Updated: 2009-10-08 07:03

TOKYO: Japan's new foreign minister said yesterday that he wants to review the deployment of US troops in his country to ease the burden on the people of Okinawa and ensure that the American military presence in Japan endures.

Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada also said that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the possible creation of an East Asian community were likely to top the agenda at a summit this weekend among the leaders of Japan, China and the Republic of Korea.

Japan hosts about 50,000 US troops, with two-thirds of them on the southernmost island of Okinawa, under a bilateral security pact. The new Tokyo government has said it wants to review their presence, as well as an agreement between the two nations to realign the troops.

"The only way this presence can be sustained in the long term is to make sure that the burden on the Okinawans is decreased in some way," Okada told journalists at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. "Only by accomplishing these goals will we be able to ensure that the US-Japan alliance will be sustainable."

A plan agreed to by the prior Japanese government calls for a major US Marine airfield on the southern island of Okinawa to be shut down and replaced with a new facility there. The deal grew out of long-standing complaints in Okinawa about noise and crime related to the heavy US military presence.

Some members of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, which won historic elections in August to oust the staunchly pro-US Liberal Democratic Party, want the base moved off Japanese territory entirely.

Washington has insisted that the plan should proceed, although American officials have signaled they are willing to revisit the issue. Okada said he met with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this month, and both agreed to study the reasons that led to the troop realignment plan.

"I realize that the governments of the US and Japan have already reached an official agreement on this plan," he said. "We are, however, in the process now of trying to think if there might be another plan to help reduce the burden on Okinawa," Japan's poorest prefecture.

"I told Secretary of State Clinton that I wanted to be able to work as foreign minister to ensure that the US-Japan alliance continues for the next 30, 50 years," Okada said.

"At the same time, we are very focused on Asia," he said.

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has floated the idea of creating an East Asian Community that would enhance economic and trade cooperation among nations in the region, although he has been vague about how the bloc would work.

Okada said the government envisions the community including China, the ROK, India, Australia, New Zealand as well as the 10 member nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

AP

(China Daily 10/08/2009 page9)

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