Hatoyama says ties with U.S. weighed heavily on base decision

Hatoyama says ties with U.S. weighed heavily on base decision

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 24, 2010, a day after he unveiled for the first time his government's plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture to an area near the Henoko district of Nago in the prefecture. Hatoyama said that maintaining trust with the United States was paramount in determining the plan to relocate the base.

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