DPJ partners oppose reclamation option

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Shimoji (L), People's New Party Diet affairs chief, Kantoku Teruya (C), head of the Social Democratic Party's Diet affairs, and Tomoko Abe(R), the policy chief of the SDP, comes out of a meeting with Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano on March 31, 2010, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo. The three representing the junior partners of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan opposed a prospective proposal to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station to an area to be reclaimed from the sea off a U.S. Navy facility in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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