NAHA, Japan (AP) — U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, making her first visit to Okinawa in hopes of winning support for a U.S. military base relocation plan, pledged Wednesday that Washington would do its best to reduce the burden of its heavy troop presence there.
“The United States is committed to working with you and the government of Japan to make that happen as rapidly as possible,” Kennedy told local leaders at a reception hosted by the U.S. consul-general.
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