Japan and the United States failed to produce a final agreement on the U.S. military realignment in their latest round of talks that ended Friday in Tokyo.
The two nations still have not settled the issue of how much Japan will pay to relocate 8,000 U.S. Marines to Guam, Richard Lawless, the U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for Asia and Pacific affairs, said at the end of the two-day meeting.
Japan offered at the start of talks Thursday to give the U.S. $3 billion, in addition to $3 billion in loans for the Guam relocation, government sources said.
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