The government will draw up a concrete plan on relocating the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station within Okinawa Prefecture "in a prompt manner," according to the final draft of an upcoming Cabinet decision.
While the draft stipulates that the plan will be based on the May 1 agreement with Washington, it has no reference to the agreed construction of a V-shaped airfield in Nago to replace the Futenma base or a deadline for drawing up the plan in view of the Okinawa Prefectural Government's skepticism.
The lack of a specific time frame is a compromise with the Okinawa government amid the Cabinet's failure for more than three weeks to come up with a decision on putting the realignment of U.S. troops into effect since the two countries struck the realignment deal in early May.
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