Japan's Hatoyama Gets Religion on Futenma Base Relocation

TOKYO -- Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama made a strange admission on his recent trip to Okinawa to try to persuade local authorities to support his plan to realign U.S. military forces on the island -- a plan that includes relocating the Marine Corps Air Station at Futenma to a less-populated part of the island. Hatoyama admitted that until his trip, he did not see any reason why the U.S. Ma

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"his Democratic Party of Japan are extremely naïve -- if not downright untrustworthy -- about security matters"