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Message: <blockquote data-quote="David Webb" data-source="post: 7579745" data-attributes="member: 163309">Japanese PM resigns amid Okinawa row<img src="http://www.presstv.ir/photo/20100602/Mirvarzandeh20100602043128200.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Japanese  Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama who took power less than nine months ago  following a landslide victory has announced his resignation.  Hatoyama, 63, announced the decision on Wednesday at a special  parliamentary meeting of lawmakers from his Democratic Party of Japan,  AFP reported. "The government's work has not reflected the public's wishes," the  Japanese premier said. Hatoyama further added that he had also asked party heavyweight and  secretary general Ichiro Ozawa to quit. The Japanese prime minister was forced out as his poll ratings  plummeted after he broke an election promise to move an unpopular US  military base off the southern island of Okinawa. The move angered the people of Okinawa who have long been  complaining about base-related noise, pollution and crime. "I have caused trouble for the people of Okinawa," Hatoyama said. "We will need to make efforts to move the US base outside of  Okinawa. But the result was that we could not deliver," he further  explained. After months of tensions, Tokyo and Washington announced in a  statement last week that the US base would be moved, as first agreed in  2006, from a crowded urban area to a coastal region of Okinawa. The move infuriated Okinawans as many want the Futenma Marine Corps  Air Station moved off the island entirely. MVZ/JG/HRF<a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=128729&sectionid=351020406" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.presstv.ir/images/presstv_logo1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

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