April 15, 2010
Tokyo, April 15 (Jiji Press) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama now faces a risk of being forced to take responsibility in case he fails to resolve by the end of May the issue of relocating a key U.S. base in Okinawa, as his brief talks with U.S. President Barack Obama produced no result.
Hatoyama, who retuned to Tokyo from a trip to Washington Wednesday night, initially hoped that a breakthrough would be made on the base issue at a meeting with Obama on the sidelines of a two-day nuclear security summit in the U.S. capital through Tuesday.
In line with the nuclear summit, Obama had bilateral meetings with leaders of more than 10 countries, including Chinese President Hu Jintao.
But no official meeting between the Japanese and U.S. leaders was set up. Hatoyama only had a chance to talk with Obama for just 10 minutes during a working dinner for the nuclear summit on Monday as they sat side by side.
The U.S. leader did not show a positive response to Hatoyama's request for cooperation to help resolve the issue of where to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air station in Ginowan in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa.
(2010/04/15-07:31)
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