The base controversy has revolved around where to move a Marine Corps Air Station currently located in a crowded urban area known as Futenma. 'The reason that [Mr.

美军基地争议的中心问题，是把一个目前位于“普天间”这个人口密集城区的海军机场迁往何处。

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Under the agreement, painstakingly negotiated with the outgoing Japanese government over several years, the United States will move 8,000 U.S.Marines from the Futenma base on Japan's southern island of Okinawa to the U.S.

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In 2006,Japan and the United States agreed to close Futenma and move its facilities to another Marine base with a heliport built on reclaimed land offshore.

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But his involvement in discussions over the Futenma base issue might be viewed as a negative by voters.

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America and Japan revised a 2006 accord on relocating the US Marines' Futenma air base in Okinawa, after the process had stalled because of local opposition.

ECONOMIST: Politics this week

The idea behind the heliport is that it will take over the functions of the marines' Futenma air base at Ginowan, in the prosperous southern half of the main island.

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