Cooling US-Japan relations? U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld canceled a scheduled stop in Japan
Sonia Joshi
Oct. 7, 2005

It may be an early sign of disagreement over military deployment and infrastructure between Japan and America.

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Oct. 6 canceled a scheduled stop in Japan on his Asia tour. The Japanese-U.S. stalemate over the relocation of the Marine Corps Futemma Air Station in Okinawa is blamed for the cooling in U.S.-Japanese relations, Japanese government officials said. The United States would like to build a civilian-military airport on reclaimed land within the reef near Camp Schwab, but Japan wants the airport to be built within the camp itself.

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