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World | Japan The departure of the SDP would be a blow to Hatoyama, already seen by voters as a weak leader, damaging his Democratic Party's chances of winning a majority in an upper house election expected in July, which it needs to pass bills smoothly. But it would not force the Democrats out of power since they boast a massive majority in parliament's more powerful lower house. Friday, Hatoyama dismissed SDP leader Mizuho Fukushima from her cabinet post after she refused to sign off on a U.S.-Japan deal to move a U.S. Marine base on the southern island of Okinawa from a city center to a less heavily populated area. He urged her to keep her party in the ruling coalition, but Kyodo news agency said its poll of 47 local SDP chapters on Friday and Saturday showed that 36 wanted to leave. Asked about the call to stay on, deputy SDP leader Seiji Mataichi said: "It's contrary to common sense and incoherent. Hatoyama has lost normal judgment and is not qualified to be prime minister of a country." Hatoyama raised hopes during his successful election campaign last year that the Futenma base could be moved out of Okinawa, and abandoning that pledge has angered not only the SDP, but local residents as well. Coalition and opposition parties called for Hatoyama to resign for failing to keep his promise on Futenma or to meet a self-imposed, end-of-May deadline for finding a solution acceptable to all the parties. He said Saturday he would stay on. Some in his own party think he should step down, but time is short for replacing him ahead of the upper house poll, expected on July 11. Hatoyama's government is seen to have wobbled on a range of promises, from cash allowances for parents of young children to abolishing highway tolls, as it struggles to nurture a fragile economic recovery while reining in ballooning public debt. "The prime minister said he was putting his job on the line, so naturally, he should resign," said Yoshihisa Inoue, secretary-general of the opposition New Komeito party. "I think that Futenma symbolizes the problem with the nature of the Hatoyama cabinet and politics, that they easily break promises with the people and apologize but take no responsibility." Media reports said the SDP might continue to cooperate with the Democrats in the election campaign on a local level even after leaving the coalition, but Mataichi said even that would only be possible if Hatoyama resigned, Kyodo said. (Additional reporting by Linda Sieg and Tetsushi Kajimoto) World Japan Comments See All Comments (1) | Post Comment May 30, 2010 2:55am EDT It is long past time that the United States removed that base from Japan. For those readers unaware of its history, that base has a history, going back to the end of the second world war, of marines raping the women, and children around the base, and then using political muscle to cover it up. This still goes on- to this day one can read about U.S. marines raping children around the base. While I was serving in the U.S. Army in Germany, the Berlin wall fell, and shortly thereafter, Germany demanded, and received back many of the bases that had been occupied since the end of the war, including the one where I was stationed. I hated to leave, but knew in my heart that the Germans were right- It was time to leave, and let the Germans continue to achieve a post war identity, including a more mature relationship with the United States, and the coalition we represented. It is time for Japan to do the same, and the United States should have the diplomatic intelligence to know it. davideconnolly Report As Abusive See All Comments (1) Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language or appear to be spam and review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. 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