GINOWAN — In a country where land is a precious commodity, many U.S. bases in Japan boast golf courses, football fields and giant shopping malls whose food courts offer everything from Taco Bell to Subway and Starbucks.
They are the most visible point of grievance in a sharpening debate about the cost to Japan of supporting the 47,000 American service members here—about $2 billion a year. That’s nearly a third of the total, and about three times what Germany pays to host U.S. forces on its soil.
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HAGATNA, Guam (Kyodo) The Guam legislature unanimously adopted a resolution Thursday urging the U.S. military and other authorities to drastically amend the planned military buildup on the island, citing many "flaws," including the impact on the environment and the threat to islanders' property.
Read more: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100212a6.html

http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/kitazawa-rejects-idea-of-transferring-all-okinawa-marines-to-guam

Looks like DPJ finally came to a conclusion that Japan will keep the current arrangement with U.S. military forces without a major change.

If you are following Futema base relocation issue for a while, you remember Hatoyama promised to move it out of Okinawa. Guess what? He's now saying they should move it somewhere in Okinawa.
Who wants to have a military base with air strips where fighters and cargo planes land and take off in your back yard? No one. It is not Hatoyama's decision where to put it. It has to be the compromise of many powerful politicians of Japan. But he didn't see that before he got into prime minster's office
Read the current situation:
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201003050386.html

Here is the latest in this long political controversy;
http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/okinawa-kagoshima-locals-angered-by-govt-futenma-plan