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Chief Cabinet Secretary Mikio Aoki, who concurrently serves as director-general of the Okinawa Development Agency, holds a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Dec. 27, 1999, after Tateo Kishimoto, mayor of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, agreed to accept the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air station, located in a congested area of Ginowan, Okinawa. Kishimoto attached several conditions to his agreement, including a 15-year limit on the U.S. military's use of a Futenma replacement facility in Nago. (Jiji Press) (KEYSTONE/Jiji Press/Keiichi Mori)