Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has given his government a deadline of May to decide whether or not Tokyo will stick to a Japan-United States agreement from 2006 on the relocation of US troops in Japan.
The 2006 accord foresees the relocation of the US Marine Corps air station Futenma from the residential area of Ginowan, located in the southern densely populated part of Okinawa, to Henoko, a less densely populated area on the northern part of the island.
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