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Dividing costs to relocate Marines remains unresolved
The issue still remains on dividing the cost of relocating 8,000 United States Marines from Okinawa to Guam. It would cost roughly $10 billion, and instead the Japanese government is only willing to spend $3 billion towards the cost of off-base housing on Guam.
While another round of meetings between U.S. and Japanese officials is scheduled to begin this week, another major obstacle is in the process of being resolved: Japan's central government and the Okinawan city of Nago have recently struck a deal to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Heliport to a remote facility on the northern tip of the island. Tokyo had been putting pressure on Okinawa to accept this particular relocation plan, which is a must for the 8,000 Marines to relocate.
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