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Denny Tamaki's election Sunday
as governor of Okinawa
Prefecture adds difficulty to the contentious
relocation of a U.S.
military base
and represents a defeat for Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe.
Tamaki, like his predecessor,
opposes plans to move the base,
already in
Okinawa, to a less
populated coastal area in the prefecture. Tamaki won
despite
Abe's Liberal Democratic Party throwing its full support behind
his rival.
The new governor appears to
have few options to obstruct
the relocation,
but an
escalating conflict between
Okinawa and Tokyo could push back the
timetable for the move.
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