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Obama: US military presence serves Japan
Press TV
Tuesday, Nov 10th, 2009
US President Barack Obama, who is due to travel to Japan this week, says the presence of US military bases in the country is in the interest of the nation.
Obama said he thinks the new center-left government in Japan will continue with a 2006 military deal with the US after reviewing the agreement.
“I’m confident that once the review is completed they will conclude that the alliance that we have … serves the interests of Japan and that they will continue,” Obama said Tuesday.
Under the 2006 accord, the US Marine Corps Futenma Air Base would be closed, but its air operations moved to an alternative site to be built on the southern island of Okinawa by 2014 in the coastal Camp Schwab area.
The US leader, however, accepted that the new government wanted to review aspects of their security alliance.
“I think that it is perfectly appropriate for the new government to want to reexamine how to move forward in a new environment,” Obama said in an interview with broadcaster NHK.
Tokyo and Washington have been at loggerheads with each other over the presence of US military forces in the country after the new Japanese government took power in September.
Japan’s new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama who has pledged a less subservient relationship with the US says his government may want the base moved off the island or even out of the country.
Washington has about 47,000 troops based in Japan, more than half of them on Okinawa. Local residents have been angered by crimes committed by US service personnel as well as the risk of accidents.
In 1995, rape of a schoolgirl by three US servicemen infuriated residents of Okinawa. Demands to close the base on safety grounds grew when a US helicopter crashed in the grounds of a local university in 2004.
Last Sunday, some 21,000 Okinawan residents protested against the presence of the US military base.
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November 10th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
How about CLOSING U.S. military bases there and bringing our troops back home and either putting them on OUR borders or decommissioning them and using the money saved to help unemployed Americans?
Why can’t we follow George Washington’s Great Rule of Conduct?
November 10th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Yanks’ presence there it is a great deal for Japanese indeed. Apart from occasional rape or murder of a citizen by a steroid enhanced marine.Oh.. and Korean nukes just might be pointed at Japan…
November 10th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
It is important that we maintain the EMPIRE.
November 10th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Have you seen Star Wars ?
Ok that’s the future for the Empire (ever occasionally).
November 10th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
BULL!!! They want us out. We have no business there. U.S. troops are constantly raping Japanese girls and being totally obnoxious. Let Japan take care of itself. Recall the Empire. It’s time we stand down the world over.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
SHEEPIlL! Relax, everything is OK! Just listen to our leader! He is our leader! Our saviour! Let us all practice now, are you ready? Praise Obama, praise Obama! Our saviour. Some how, just some how, I do not feel right! Who can it be now? Could it be a lizard?
November 10th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
wassamatter?
obama afraid of another pearl harbour from the japanese vassle?
November 10th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
BULLSHIT…..ASK ANY OKINAWA CITIZEN ABOUT THE RAPIST THUG MURIKAN TROOPS…
November 11th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Over many years we have all been lied to by our Governments, but not just our Governments but many religous leaders. Many things we have been taught are not even in Scripture and millions have swallowed so many lies by these false prophets. If you are a truth seeker please visit the following web site and take the time to read some of the articles, you will be shocked.
http://www.2besaved.com
Blessings
Ben
November 11th, 2009 at 3:15 am
SHOCKED ENOUGH WITH OBAMAS LIES..THANK YOU….
November 11th, 2009 at 7:37 am
I like the comment of the new PM of Japan. If the US troops are all out from Japan and Japanese Self Defence Force stop putting surveillance on peace activists against wars and military expansion, I might go back.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:00 am
I agree that we should close the bases return our troops and save some money. I think 60+ years is long enough that we don’t have to worry about a Japanese uprising anytime soon. Besides, with the missles & bomb technology we have, do we really need troops there in the first place??????It only takes half a day to move troops almost anywhere in the world. I say close the bases and consolidate our troops.
November 11th, 2009 at 9:40 am
This is about encirclement of China and Russia. Bases in Japan can strike faster if they don’t have to fly far
November 12th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
has anyone ever read roman history? something tells me a certain country is following down that very same road