Okada tells Okinawa he is studying Kadena-Futemma plan 'intensively'

NAHA, Japan - Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada (L, front) inspects on Nov. 15, 2009, the site in Nago in northern Okinawa where the U.S. Marines Corps' Futemma Air Station, which is located in a crowded residential area, is planned to be relocated. Okada, in his first visit to Okinawa since assuming the Cabinet post in September, held talks with Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima and held talks on the issue of relocating the airfield.

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