Standoff over US base closure sours US-Japan ties (AP)

Standoff over US base closure sours US-Japan ties 
    (AP)

AP – When the U.S. took over a Japanese airfield here in the closing days of World War II, it was surrounded by sugarcane fields and the smoldering battlegrounds of Okinawa. It is now the focus of a deepening dispute that is testing Japan’s security alliance with the United States and dividing its new government in Tokyo.