Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his resolve at a meeting with Okinawa officials Tuesday to allocate as much money as possible in next year's budget to promote the prefecture's economy.

The Abe administration plans to allocate about ¥340 billion to boost the regional economy, sources said, amid hope of obtaining Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima's permission for landfill work needed to build a replacement facility for the Futenma military base.

Earlier in the day in a meeting with Abe, Nakaima called for the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in the city of Ginowan to be shut down within five years, and for Camp Kinser, known also as the Makiminato Service Area, in Urasoe to be wholly returned to Japanese control within seven years.