U.S. move from Okinawa to Guam delayed: report

The U.S. Navy told the Guam government on Thursday that the island's infrastructure cannot handle such a rapid construction schedule, the Daily Yomiuri reported from Washington, without giving its source.

The U.S. government has effectively given up its target of completing the transfer in 2014 and also informed Tokyo of the delay, the daily said.

The transfer plan, also involving the relocation of some 9,000 military family members, is part of a 2006 agreement between Tokyo and Washington aimed at reducing a heavy U.S. military presence on Okinawa.

Another part of the deal involves the relocation of the U.S. Futenma marine corps air station from a fast growing urban area to a less developed coastal part of Okinawa.

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