By The second coming of Roh Moo-hyun continues in Japan:
Japan’s prime minister said this week he will press for a more equal relationship with the United States during this year, which marks the 50th anniversary of a joint security treaty allowing forward-deployed U.S. forces in the country.
The comments came after months of building friction between the two governments, mainly over Japan’s reconsideration of a 2006 agreement to move 8,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam and relocate Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, to a planned airfield at Camp Schwab along the island’s rural northeast coast. [Stars & Stripes]
I don’t think Roh Moo-hyun is the person to be replicating when making policy, but it appears Japan’s Yukio Hatoyama doesn’t mind.
9:59 am on January 6th, 2010 1
I read the article, how is allowing the Chinese on a Japanese destroyer full of American technology a "Display of cooperation between the U.S. and Japan?"
10:00 am on January 6th, 2010 2
Wasn't Hatoyama's wife abducted by aliens? Where is she now, Pluto?
2:46 pm on January 6th, 2010 3
Jumping on the bandwagon of 'hope and change' in the US, hoping he can change US policy toward secret US weapons systems in exchange for a smile.