President Obama arrived in Japan today and it appears that the Japanese have offered the President a token goodwill gesture:

Japanese prosecutors confirmed Friday that they have dropped the case against an American man arrested in Japan when he snatched his children from his ex-wife.

Christopher Savoie was arrested Sept. 28 in Fukuoka, Japan, as he tried to enter the U.S. Consulate with his 9-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter. Ex-wife Noriko Savoie had violated a U.S. court custody decision by taking the children from Franklin, Tennessee, to her native Japan a month earlier.

Christopher Savoie, who is back in the U.S., was told Japanese authorities are closing the case, Savoie‘s spokesman Wes Yoder said Thursday.  []

You can read more about this case at my prior posting here that discusses how Japan is a child abduction haven.

However, I have so far seen no indication of the Okinawa base dispute being rectified.