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Japan’s premier Yoshihiko Noda offered a personal apology to Okinawa over his government’s attitude to the moving of an unpopular US air base.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In his first trip to the tropical island chain as prime minister, Noda told governor Hirokazu Nakaima he intended to stick with a long-stalled plan to shift the air base, but was sorry for the way the issue had been handled.<\/p>\n

“We mustn’t fix the Futenma air station” at its current site, Noda told Nakaima, referring to a 2006 agreement for the base to be relocated from its crowded urban location to a sparsely populated coastal zone.<\/p>\n

But a bowing Noda added:<\/strong> “I apologize to the governor and people of Okinawa” for the insincere attitude the governing Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has shown towards the issue.<\/p>\n

“We have to see progress this year in developing Okinawa and reducing your burden” of hosting US troops, Noda said.<\/p>\n

Many Okinawans want the base off the southern island altogether and say the US military presence there should be dramatically cut.<\/p>\n

But Tokyo and Washington see the island chain as a vital bridgehead in the rapidly evolving Pacific theatre, where the growing military might of China regularly raises eyebrows.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/em>
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