This Feb. 7, 2005 aerial photo shows U.S. base Camp Schwab, center right, and its surrounding coral reef area on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. The United States has agreed to a Japanese proposal to move an American air station on Okinawa to the existing U.S. base Camp Schwab, resolving a dispute that had blocked progress on military realignment talks and caused friction between the two allies, news reports said on Wednesday. Kyodo News agency quoted Japanese defense chief Yoshinori Ono in Tokyo as saying that lead U.S. negotiator Richard Lawless had told him that Washington would go along with the Japanese plan. National broadcaster NHK and other media had similar reports. This Feb. 7, 2005 aerial photo shows U.S. base Camp Schwab, center right, and its surrounding coral reef area on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. The United States has agreed to a Japanese proposal to move an American air station on Okinawa to the existing U.S. base Camp Schwab, resolving a dispute that had blocked progress on military realignment talks and caused friction between the two allies, news reports said on Wednesday. Kyodo News agency quoted Japanese defense chief Yoshinori Ono in Tokyo as saying that lead U.S. negotiator Richard Lawless had told him that Washington would go along with the Japanese plan. National broadcaster NHK and other media had similar reports.
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