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US envoy visits Okinawa amid base plans
US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy has made her first visit to the southernmost island of Okinawa, hoping to get support for a contentious plan to relocate a US military base
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S Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy has made herfirst visit to the southernmost island of Okinawa, hoping to get support for acontentious plan to relocate a US military base.
She met Wednesday morning with Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima, who expressed hopes they could work together on the base problem.
'There are various problems and tasks such as crimes, accidents as well as environmental issues and so on,' he told Kennedy.
'We would like to seek and urge your help so as to resolve the issue fundamentally and to reduce our burden of having US bases.'
Earlier, Kennedy offered flowers at the National War Dead Peace Mausoleum, which honors people who died during the closing of World War II.
Nakaima supports the relocation of Futenma air station to the Henoko district of Nago, but many others are opposed, including Nago's mayor.
