Westminster Coroner's Court sets a date for Koseda's inquest: 6 January.
Defense lawyers now have a chance to rebut the arguments before the judge sets a date for his verdict.
The proposed agreement, which took nearly a year to negotiate with the United States, not only sets a date for American troop withdrawal, but puts new restrictions on American combat operations in Iraq starting Jan . 1and requires an American military pullback from urban areas by June 30.
Friday's agreement sets a date for returning the Futenma base to Japan as early as 2022, if the replacement base is finished, and establishes a timetable for handing over five other American facilities, which along with Futenma occupy 2,500 acres on Okinawa's crowded southern half.
"It sets a date for the opening of this corridor to big, gregarious, herding animals, but I don't know if it necessarily sets a date for the very first movement of humans," he says.
As the fragile truce in Syria holds and the U.N. sets a date for a new round of peace talks in Geneva, human rights groups are calling on diplomats to address the issue of the hundreds of thousands of people in government detention.
