TOKYO: Japan said on Monday it was sticking with plans to relocate a controversial United States (US) military base in Okinawa, despite the election of a local politician strongly opposed to the move.

Susumu Inamine was re–elected mayor at this weekend’s polls in Nago on the east coast of Okinawa, where the base is to be moved.

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