The United States has withdrawn most of its specific proposals for the realignment of U.S. forces in Japan, Japanese government officials said Tuesday.

They said the U.S. government informed Japan of the withdrawal through its embassy in Tokyo on Monday, along with its plan to renegotiate the realignment.

A senior U.S. Pacific Forces official told Japan's Defense Agency on Tuesday that the U.S. government will announce its basic plan on the realignment soon, the officials said.