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Hideki Takaoka, mayor of Tokunoshima town, second right, delivers a message to Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama during a meeting with Tokunoshima island mayors including Takaoka, Kosuke Ohisa of Amagi town, second right, and Akira Okubo of Isen town, left, at Hatoyama's official residence in Tokyo, on Friday May 7, 2010. Hatoyama met with the three mayors from Tokunoshima, an island 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Okinawa, to ask them to accept plans to accommodate part of functions of Futenma U.S. Marine Corps airfield in Okinawa. (AP Photo/Toshifumi Kitamura, Pool)