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US-Japan relations and American military realignment in the region

915 words - February 17, 2012 - Writing by Shawnna Robert; Editing by Charles Rault | © DiploNews, all rights reserved.

The U.S. and Japan met once again this week to discuss the 2006 Roadmap to Realignment and the 2009 Guam International Agreement. The 2006 Roadmap would relocate Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, now in the center of Okinawa’s Ginowan City, to a more remote area of the island. The Guam agreement would move 8,000 Marines and their 9,000 dependents from Okinawa to Guam. Both agreements work to lessen the costs Okinawa has to bear as a result of the large U.S. presence and have been the subject of intense political debate in Japan. They would also increase the flexibility...

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