Noda apologizes to Okinawa for defense official's indiscreet remark

Noda apologizes to Okinawa for defense official's indiscreet remark

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda offers an apology while being questioned by reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 30, 2011, about a senior Defense Ministry official's indiscreet comment. He apologized to people in Okinawa for Satoshi Tanaka's comment made in connection with the government's plan to relocate a key U.S. base, for which he was sacked from the post of chief of the Okinawa Defense Bureau the previous day.

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