Hatoyama, Hillary to meet on US base
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who will reportedly meet with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week, vowed yesterday to do all he can to resolve an impasse over the future of a major American Marine base by the end of the month.
Hatoyama is under increasing pressure to come up with a plan to move operations off the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma on the southern island of Okinawa in keeping with a pledge he made before becoming Japan's leader last September.
He has promised to resolve the issue by the end of this month, though that goal now seems unrealistic because Okinawans oppose his suggested solutions and the United States is holding firm to an earlier agreement that Hatoyama wants to revise.
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