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Def Sec Gates meets FM Okada over future of Okinawa US base
(20 Oct 2009) SHOTLIST
AP TELEVISION
1. Various of US military plane on tarmac
2. Airport official guiding plane on the tarmac
3. Robert Gates, US Defence Secretary, walking down from plane with his wife and shaking hands with officials
4. Photographers standing next to security
5. Gates getting in to car
6. Various of convoy leaving
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7. Gates walking into room and shaking hands with Katsuya Okada, Japanese Foreign Minister
8. Gates and his delegation taking seats
9. Pan from media to meeting
10. Mid of Gates talking
11. Mid of media
12. US delegation, pan to Okada talking
13. Wide of meeting
STORYLINE
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Japan on Tuesday to meet with officials to discuss a US Marine base to remain on Japan's southern island of Okinawa despite political pressure among Tokyo's new leaders to shut it down.
Gates did not specifically mention the controversy over the Futenma base, a major US Marines hub, during brief remarks with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada.
But the defence secretary made clear that the Obama administration would frown on any action by Tokyo to block a new runway at another base on Okinawa when Futenma is closed.
Okada also did not delve into any specific topics when he told Gates the administration of newly elected Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama would seek a deeper and sustainable relationship with the US.
At issue is the fate of the air field in the wake of Hatoyama's election last month.
Three years ago, US and Japanese officials agreed to shift eight-thousand Marines in Okinawa to the US territory of Guam and to move the Futenma air field base to Camp Schwab, also on the southern Japanese island.
But some members of Hatoyama's government want all remaining US troops moved out of Japan altogether.
Okinawa residents have complained that the military bases cause too much noise and crime.
US officials hope to resolve the issue by the time President Barack Obama arrives in Japan early next month. Gates will meet with Hatoyama on Wednesday.
If the base were forced to move, Gates suggested that the entire deal to relocate troops to Guam might fall through.
He said that other, unidentified locations for the air field that were reviewed by the US and Japanese governments were either politically or operationally impossible.
The United States is Japan's key military ally, and an estimated 50-thousand American troops are deployed there.
The issue of Japan withdrawing two of its naval ships from the Indian Ocean, tankers that have been used as refuelling pit stops for Afghanistan-bound allies, will also be discussed over the next two days, Gates said.
However, it was unclear whether Gates thought he could reverse that decision.
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