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Nothing can happen at Iwakuni, however, before the completion of a new runway in 2008.
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The island is also popular with Americans from the nearby Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Station.
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Nowhere more so than in Iwakuni, near Hiroshima, where the marines share a large coastal base with Japan's Maritime Self-Defence Force.
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In the new budget for the fiscal year starting this April, the ministry pointedly left out any mention of subsidies for Iwakuni.
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As part of the realignment plan, some 70 American aircraft and their crews are to be shifted to Iwakuni from elsewhere in Japan.
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"The perception that he lacks capability is saving him, " says Iwakuni.
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Iwakuni is America's most important base in north-east Asia, being its closest airfield to North Korea and within easy reach of other potential hotspots, such as Taiwan.
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The party's first mistake was to create the vacancy, by pulling out the incumbent to run for mayor of Iwakuni, a small city hosting a controversial American base.
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"His cleverness created that stupid response, " Iwakuni said later.
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That was enough to get Katsusuke Ihara, the mayor of Iwakuni, on the train to Tokyo in a bid to reopen talks about realignment, and revive the suspended subsidies for his city's fancy new municipal-government building.
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Diet member Tetsundo Iwakuni tried to make Obuchi choose between the two by telling a story of a constituent who couldn't decide whether to buy new furniture now--or wait until later when the sales tax would be abolished.
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