New Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday not to go ahead with the transfer of a U.S. military base within the prefecture, saying his election victory on an anti-relocation platform speaks for itself.Tamaki, meeting with Abe and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga at the prime minister's office, also called for a "fundamental review" of a bilateral agreement on the status of U.S. forces and a reduction in Okinawa's base-hosting burden."I'm opposed to building a new base in Henoko and the people of Okinawa expressed their opposition in the (gubernatorial) ele…READ FULL ARTICLE
