May 26 03:37 AM US/Eastern
TOKYO, May 26 (AP) - (Kyodo) — The Social Democratic Party is "clearly opposed" to the government's plan to relocate a key U.S. Marine base within Okinawa Prefecture, especially to the designated Henoko area due to environmental concerns, SDP leader Mizuho Fukushima said Wednesday.
But the SDP, a junior coalition partner of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan, will not leave the coalition immediately, Fukushima suggested at a press conference.
Hatoyama on Sunday unveiled a plan to move the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station from densely populated Ginowan to a coastal area near the Henoko district in Nago, both in Okinawa, even though the prime minister promised ahead of last summer's general election that he would seek to relocate the base "at least" outside the prefecture.
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