Japan, U.S. plan new accord to revive realignment

Japan and the United States plan to underline their commitment to the 2006 road map on realigning U.S. forces in Japan in a new accord on a plan to relocate U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam, government sources said Saturday.

Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton are expected to sign the accord when Clinton visits Japan on Feb. 16.

The gesture is an apparent bid to demonstrate the strengthening of the Japanese-U.S. alliance by promoting the realignment, they said.


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