by Jiji Press
The Japanese government faces increased pressure from Okinawa people now that the United States announced its intention to review plans to realign U.S. military bases in Japan.
Calls for scrapping a bilateral agreement to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air station in Ginowan, Okinawa, to the Henoko coastal area of Nago, also Okinawa, are already increasing in the southern Japan prefecture.
Opposition against the Futenma relocation plan is likely to intensify further in the lead-up to the Ginowan mayoral election on Feb. 12 and the Okinawa prefectural assembly poll in June.
Japan and the United States will hold a high-level meeting in Washington Monday to review their base realignment plans that includes the transfer of Marines from Okinawa to Guam.
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