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The Japenese may rethink US Futenma air base after poll. Residents of Nago an Okinawain city chose a myor who is opposed to moving the US aribase there from a more populated part of Okinawa. Talk of moving the base out of Japan altogether has threatened the long-standing US-Japan security alliance. The Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hayotoma said the results of Sunday's election reflected the will of the people, and that Japan will continue to re-examine its commitment to relocate the air base. "The country will start from scratch on this issue and take responsibility to reach a conclusion by the end of May," Mr.Hatoyama said. This plan of moving the US airforce base at Futenma. Okinawa is curently home to most of the 47,000 troops in Japan.

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The article from The peoples voice.Org was really short and contained almost no information except for the part of the election. Otherwise I got most of my information from BBC. I belive that BBC had a very good article.

I think that this was a very interesting article. The main thing that interested me was that the article said that there were forty seven thousand troops in Japan and yet the American government is sending reserveist over to Iraq when we have 47,000 troops doing nothing in Japan. But otherwise this was a very good article and was very interestin.