`Unsettled` US base issue may cost Japan’s PM job

Last Updated: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 15:27

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama will have to step down if he fails to settle a US military base-related issue by the end of May as he pledged.

Japan’s foreign minister in US for base talks

Last Updated: Monday, March 29, 2010, 09:22

Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada on Sunday in the United States for talks on a controversial US military base that has clouded relations between the close allies, officials said.

Japan searches for US base row compromise

Last Updated: Friday, March 26, 2010, 14:41

Japan`s centre-left government on Friday scrambled to work out a compromise in a festering row over a controversial US military base, days before the country`s foreign minister heads to Washington.

Japan to propose moving half key US base off Okinawa: Report

Last Updated: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 23:13

Japan has decided to propose to Washington to relocate half of a controversial US military airbase away from the southern island of Okinawa, a report said on Thursday, citing the top government spokesman.

Base needed to defend Japan: United States

Last Updated: Thursday, March 18, 2010, 09:38

The United States has said that it needs to maintain a base on the Japanese island of Okinawa to defend the region, as the new government in Tokyo considers scrapping a previous plan.

US envoy urges Japan to stick to deadline for base row

Last Updated: Saturday, March 6, 2010, 16:02

A senior US envoy has warned that ties with Japan could be "affected in many fields" if Tokyo missed a May deadline for solving a dispute over an American military base, Japanese lawmakers said on Saturday.

Taliban claim responsibility in US base attack

Last Updated: Friday, February 12, 2010, 18:08

Taliban forces claimed responsibility on Thursday for an attack by a suicide bomber on a US military base near the Pakistani border that injured five Americans.

Japan’s PM not to let Futemma stay, will pick new site

Last Updated: Friday, January 29, 2010, 13:45

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has made it clear that he will not let the US Marine Corps` Futemma Air Station stay in the current site in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture.

Japan PM tries to deflect base feud, scandal weighs

Last Updated: Monday, January 25, 2010, 10:40

Japan`s leader on Monday stood by his conviction not to decide the fate of a US base before the end of the May, even though the nagging issue is further eroding voter support already hurt by a funding scandal.

Okinawa town elects mayor who opposes US base

Last Updated: Sunday, January 24, 2010, 22:29

The future of an American military base and the balance of US-Japan relations were thrown into further question Sunday as voters in a small city far from Tokyo elected a mayor opposed to the base.

US base row focus of Japan city vote

Last Updated: Sunday, January 24, 2010, 11:20

Japanese voters in a city on Okinawa island go to the polls to elect a new mayor on Sunday in a vote that throws a spotlight on a dispute with the United States over where to build a controversial new US air base.

Relocate Futemma outside prefecture: Okinawa Governor

Last Updated: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 16:12

Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima told Japan`s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano no Saturday that prefectural residents are insistent that the US Marine Corps` Futemma Air Station be relocated outside the prefecture.