Tokyo, U.S. Agree on Military Realignment
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From Times Wire Reports
Washington and Tokyo have struck a bargain over a plan to realign U.S. forces in Japan, with Tokyo agreeing to pay $6.1 billion of the estimated $10-billion cost.
Japanese Defense Minister Fukushiro Nukaga told reporters after his three-hour meeting with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld at the Pentagon that Japan wanted to have an appropriate sharing of costs in transferring 8,000 Marines from Okinawa to the Pacific island of Guam.
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