Washington Post (May 1)
2012/ 05/ 02 by jd in Global News
Tokyo and Washington made “a welcome step forward” with the decision to move 9,000 marines to other Pacific bases. This “small but significant diplomatic breakthrough” will finally ease “the two-year-old standoff over U.S. bases on the Japanese island of Okinawa.” The deal will strengthen “an alliance that both countries need more than ever” and may even “open the way for an invigoration of strategic cooperation at just the right time in East Asia.”
Tags: Alliance, Diplomacy, Marines, Okinawa, Tokyo, Washington
