"We would like to seek your help so we can resolve the issue and reduce our burden of hosting US bases".
Okinawa's governor, Hirokazu Nakaima, accused the countries' leaders of "ignoring" local concerns about the risk of accidents, as well as pollution, crime and the burden of hosting about half of the 47,000 US troops based in Japan.
But if peace is not restored and neighbouring countries continue to struggle with the burden of hosting 4 million Syrian refugees, Europe for some seems to be the only option to live a life in dignity.
"These countries which carry the burden of hosting refugees on a scale far higher and for far longer than anything experienced in Europe today must not be left in the lurch".
Last month he visited the island to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa, apologising "as a representative of all Japanese people" and promising to "ease the burden" of hosting the bases.
"Iran has shouldered the burden of hosting one of the world's largest refugee populations for more than three decades, but it needs to meet international standards for their treatment," said Mr. Stork, the Human Rights Watch official.
The European Commission will hope to square this circle next week when it produces a roadmap for further work.Sharing the burden of hosting refugees presents a conundrum that has foxed the EU for years.
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says it hopes to move 90,000 of the refugees to better-equipped settlements in Dadaab before November, though the plans are dependent on permission from Kenya, which has complained repeatedly about the burden of hosting so many Somalis.
"Kenya can no longer bear the burden of hosting the massive number of refugees," he said in a speech at the Commonwealth summit meeting in Australia, according to the local news media, "and calls upon the Commonwealth to support efforts to facilitate their return to Somalia or relocation to another country".
