Okinawa assembly head asks Obama in letter to scrap Futenma plan

Okinawa assembly head asks Obama in letter to scrap Futenma plan

NAHA, Japan - Zenshin Takamine (L), chairman of the Okinawa prefectural assembly, hands U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos a letter calling for scrapping a plan to transfer the Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station within the prefecture in Naha on June 21, 2010. Takamine said in the letter addressed to U.S. President Barack Obama that 90 percent of residents in the prefecture are opposed to the plan.

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