WASHINGTON (Kyodo) The United States does not consider its alliance with Japan to be in crisis despite a simmering dispute over the U.S. Futenma air base in Okinawa Prefecture, a senior U.S. administration official said.
"The first thing I would say is that there is no crisis in the U.S.-Japan alliance," the official told a small group of reporters recently.
"The alliance is very much larger than questions about the particular boundaries or particular locations of one base, in a very substantial alliance," the official said on condition of anonymity.