Futenma base relocation issue
Tokunoshima Island to be considered
(Date and time unknown)
April 19, 2010, Tokunoshima, Japan - The monument for the fallen crewmembers of the battleship Yamato stands on Inutabu-misaki on Tokunoshima in this undated file photo. Tokunoshima has become the center of focus of possible Japanese government's plan to reloate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station from Okinawa's Futenma. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who has vowed to settle the base issue by the end of May, announced this small Japanese island sitting between Okinawa and mainland Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu was being considered as a possible location. (Photo by Yuji Higashida/AFLO) [2853] -mis-