Us-japan Agree on Emigration to The United State Marines Okinawa
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US-Japan Agree on emigration to the United State Marines Okinawa,U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is now the trip to Santiago, Chile, praised the agreement to move the U.S. Marines or other locations in the Asia-Pacific region.
US-Japan Agree on emigration to the United State Marines Okinawa, Agreement was reached after protests over the years by the citizens of Okinawa Japan are complaining because of the crime, noise and several incidents of bad behavior by U.S. soldiers stationed on the island.
America and Japan issued a joint statement announcing the deal after negotiating for several years, stalled by the political controversy between the two countries. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called it a landmark agreement.
Pentagon spokesman, George Little, said the deal was in line with the U.S. government’s new defense strategy, which called for a shift in focus to the Asia Pacific region, along with the Middle East. “This agreement demonstrates our commitment to Japan. It demonstrates our commitment to the Asia Pacific region and this reflects our pressure on the Asia Pacific region, “said Little.
George Little to add schedules moving the Marines out of Okinawa still has not been established. “Later we will withdraw its approximately nine thousand people of Okinawa and has about five thousand or more to Guam,” added Little. “This is completely consistent with what we’ve been talking for some time in Japan as our ally.”
Official portrait of Leon Panetta as United States Secretary of Defense (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In addition to Guam, the army also moved to Hawaii and several other locations in the Pacific, outside Japan. About 10,000 Marines will still remain in Okinawa. Agreement to close the Futenma Air Base to target a variety of protests by residents of Japan, yet again achieved.
America has about 50 thousand troops in Japan under an agreement signed by both countries in 1960, 15 years after the U.S. defeated Japan in World War II.
Demonstration against the presence of U.S. troops in Okinawa started in cases of rape of a Japanese schoolgirl by some American soldiers in 1995.
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