Tokyo, January 29: Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has made it clear that he will not let the US Marine Corps’ Futemma Air Station stay in the current site in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture.
Noting that Japan and the United States came up with the relocation plan with the aim of taking the danger of the Futemma facility away from the city and helping local people feel safer, Hatoyama said: “I’m determined not to let (the facility) go back there”.
He will pick a new relocation site by the end of May as he has promised, Hatoyama added at a meeting of the House of Councillors’ Budget Committee yesterday.
–Agencies