Across Asia: Japan
China Daily | Updated: 2010-01-11 07:45
Okinawa options reviewed
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano concluded a three-day trip to Okinawa yesterday by viewing potential relocation sites for the US Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station by air.
The two locations Hirano scouted were Ie island, which lies a few kilometers off the Motobu Peninsula of mainland Okinawa and has a population of just over 5,000 inhabitants, and Shimoji island which comprises the Miyako Islands, a part of the greater Ryukyu Island region.
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