DPJ partners oppose reclamation option

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.

(2)Gov't decision on troops dispatch draw protests

(2)Gov't decision on troops dispatch draw protests

NAHA, Japan - Kantoku Teruya, a Social Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, addresses a rally held outside the Okinawa prefectural government office in Naha on Dec. 9 to protest a government decision to send noncombat troops to Iraq.

DPJ partners oppose reclamation option

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)

(2)Gov't decision on troops dispatch draw protests

(2)Gov't decision on troops dispatch draw protests

NAHA, Japan - Kantoku Teruya, a Social Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, addresses a rally held outside the Okinawa prefectural government office in Naha on Dec. 9 to protest a government decision to send noncombat troops to Iraq. (Kyodo)