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Top US military officer in Japan amid base row

TOKYO : The top US military officer on Friday kicked off a series of talks in Japan, government officials said, as their decades-long alliance is being strained by a military base dispute. ...full story at Channel NewsAsia

from Channel NewsAsia on Fri, Oct 23 2009

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