Sun Nov 1, 1:52 am ETWASHINGTON (AFP) – A meeting between US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Japanese counterpart planned for Friday has been postponed, the State Department announced.
A revised schedule of Clinton's activities made public late Saturday dropped any mention of the meeting with Katsuya Okada, which had been previously scheduled in Washington for November 6 at 11:30 am (1530 GMT).
No formal explanation was given.
Clinton's talks with Okada were to come ahead of US President Barack Obama's first official visit to Japan on November 12-13 and amid a row over the planned relocation of a controversial US base in Japan.
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who took power in September, has pledged to review a 2006 agreement to relocate the US Marine Corps Futenma Air Base from an urban to a coastal part of the southern island of Okinawa.
Hatoyama has suggested the base -- which has angered residents because of aircraft noise and friction with US servicemen -- could be moved off the island altogether, a move Washington has strongly
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