Gates’ first visit as Pentagon chief to the island in the Western Pacific came at the start of an Asia tour that will also take him to Singapore, Thailand and South Korea.

The U.S. plans to move some 8,000 Marines and a similar number of dependents from the southern Japanese island of Okinawa to Guam by 2014 as part of a global realignment of U.S. forces.

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