Suga visits Guam for talks with U.S. commander

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (3rd from L) visits the Andersen Air Force Base in Guam on Oct. 30, 2015. During the trip, Suga talked with Lt. Gen. John Toolan, commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, highlighting the bilateral agreement to move some of the U.S. Marines in Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa to Guam and elsewhere as a way to ease the burden on the island prefecture, at a time when the plan to relocate a key U.S. base within Okinawa faces local opposition. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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