Representatives of the two junior partners in the Democratic Party of Japan-led coalition asked the government Wednesday to rule out a plan to move U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa to an area to be filled in near the main island.
The delegates, including Tomoko Abe, the policy chief of the Social Democratic Party, and Kokumin Shinto (People's New Party) Diet affairs chief Mikio Shimoji, made the request to Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano during a meeting at the prime minister's office.