Staff writer
With the gap in fiscal health widening between Japan and the United States, Tokyo is reconsidering one of it's sacred budgetary cows: support for U.S. military forces in Japan.
The Finance Ministry recently suggested reviewing spending in support of the 42,000 American service members in Japan as part of the process of compiling the fiscal 2000 budget. The move marked the first official second-guessing since Japan first opened its wallet two decades ago.