(MENAFN) The US will "realign" its army presence in Japan, with two partners mulling setting up a new defense unit in Okinawa province.
“A Marine Littoral Regiment, or MLR, will be established within a few years as part of a realignment of the Marine Corps in the southern island prefecture (province),” according to Tokyo-based Kyodo News, citing anonymous Japan-US diplomatic sources.
The move came "amid China's intensifying military activities in the East China Sea," in line with the document, stating that the unit will be ready "for the defense of remote islands in southwestern Japan."
It also declared that the new unit, which will have between 1,800 and 2,000 workers, "could trigger a backlash from locals."
Around 70 percent of the whole amount of land used exclusively for US army systems in Japan is in Okinawa province.
Japan and the US will talk over the strategy throughout a “two-plus-two” conference of their external and defense ministers in Washington on Wednesday.
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