by PNA
Japan and the United States have agreed to move 4,700 Marines in Japan's Okinawa to the U.S. territory of Guam, local media reported on Sunday.
The two countries agreed in 2006 to transfer some 8,000 Marines to Guam and also move the U.S. Marines' Futenma airbase in Okinawa to less crowded Henoko, which is also on the Japanese island.
But the implementation of the planned roadmap has been delayed because successive Japanese governments have not yet win over the residents on the island for the acceptation of the deal.
Japan and the United States have already agreed to separate the planned transfer of Okinawa-based Marines to Guam from the issue of relocating the Futenma base by moving 4,700 of the roughly 8, 000 Marines in Okinawa to the U.S. territory in the Pacific without waiting for the relocation of the base, Kyodo News reported.
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