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TOKYO, May 20 (UPI) -- Japan and the United States should have an agreement on a U.S. Marine base on Okinawa by the end of the month, Japan's prime minister told reporters Thursday.
The two countries are holding "two plus two" meetings in the next few days, The Yomiuri Shimbun reported. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to arrive Friday in Tokyo for meetings with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, and Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa leaves for Washington to meet with his U.S. counterpart, Robert Gates.
"I'm making an all-out effort to craft a deal by the end of May," Hatoyama said Thursday.
Hatoyama has been trying to reduce the size of the U.S. footprint on Okinawa. But opposition from the United States has forced him back to a 2006 agreement to move Marine Air Station Futenma to an emptier part of Okinawa, The New York Times said.
The major change from 2006 is expected to be an agreement to move some training exercises off Okinawa.
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