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...times when Ozawa's determination for Japan to be a normal country with a sense of its own interests seemed likely to make him an awkward partner for the U.S. For example, Ozawa recently suggested that under a DPJ-led government the presence of the Seventh Fleet, based at Yokosuka, would be "enough" U.S. military for East Asia - a remark that implied that all other U.S. bases in Japan should be closed. While he says that the relationship with the U.S. is "the most important that Japan has," Ozawa puts some daylight between himself and Washington. He told TIME: "When...
...father worked a full-time job in Yokosuka and later in Yokohama, but always had time for my mother, brother and me because work ended at the stipulated time. When Asian men put their wives and children ahead of their office, and employers heed work hours, marriage will be worthwhile and there'll be more happy spouses and children. Michael G. Driver, Ichihara, Japan...
...ends Feb. 22, that's exactly that he was tasked with doing: reassuring Tokyo that the U.S.-Japan relationship was still strong. Normally that wouldn't be a difficult mission. And today in a speech on board the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, anchored off Yokosuka Naval Base near Tokyo, Cheney declared, "Relations between our two countries have never been better than they are today." The problem is, that's not quite true...
...town of Ginowan, Okinawa, to a less populated part of the island chain. The next day, the U.S. Navy announced that Japan had dropped a long-standing objection and agreed to let the Navy replace its 44-year-old, diesel-powered Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, now stationed at Yokosuka, with a newer, nuclear-powered one. Then came the release of a report on the alliance that outlined the most sweeping revisions to U.S. base deployments and the most far-reaching strategic understandings between the two countries in more than a decade. The report confirmed the withdrawal...
...What events are planned seem almost universally low-key. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's hometown of Yokosuka will hold a memorial tea ceremony, which he has declined to attend. In Shimane prefecture?where a holiday celebrating the annexation of Takeshima island sparked anti-Japanese demonstrations in Korea earlier this year?one village will honor fishermen who rescued hundreds of Russian seamen during the battle. And in Tsushima, May 27 will be marked with remembrance services and the unveiling of a Russia-financed war memorial...