That is anathema to the Americans, who fear that any talk of time limits at Nago could trigger demands for similar deadlines at the Misawa and Yokota air bases and the Yokosuka naval station in mainland Japan.

ECONOMIST: How the Americans got their base

Japan-Hawaii-Guam is in recession, as is Japan to the mainland U.S. The revenue base is equivalent to AMR and it, too, earns over a billion.

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