TOKYO: A Japanese mayor whose city is set to be the site of a relocated US military base pleaded for the plan to be dropped, as Tokyo and Washington push ahead with the move.
Susumu Inamine, who has just been re-elected on a fiercely anti-base platform as the mayor of Nago, Okinawa, said the burden of hosting the 47,000 US personnel based in Japan should be spread across the country.
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