US military personnel walk by US Air Force stealth fighters at Air Base, in Okinawa, Japan.
Newly elected Japanese legislators from Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) have promised to press for the removal of US military units from the southern island of Okinawa.
All five Okinawa politicians said they were opposed to a deal between the US and Japan regarding the Futenma air base in their region.
The legislators promised to press for the transfer of American air bases outside of Okinawa or overseas.
The lawmakers emphasized that thousands of US Marines and their families should be moved to the US Pacific island territory of Guam.
Washington has said it has no intention to renegotiate the Futenma replacement facility plan or Guam relocation.
"The United States has no intention to renegotiate the Futenma replacement facility plan or Guam relocation with the government of Japan," State department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters.
DPJ made history on Sunday with an overwhelming victory in the election. DPJ won 300 seats in the 480-seat lower house, ending half a century of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rule.
Japan's new Premier-designate Yukio Hatoyama has also insisted that his DJP party will question the role of thousands of US troops deployed throughout Japan under a post World War II security pact.
The new Japanese new prime minister is said to be a strong critic of what he calls Tokyo's 'subservient position to Washington'.
Hatoyama had regularly criticized the pro-US ruling party for joining in refueling operations in the Indian Ocean in support of the US-led forces in Afghanistan.
Hatoyama has also vowed to pursue new politics that would take Tokyo away from the 'excesses of US-style capitalism'.
"As a result of the failure of the Iraq war and the financial crisis, the era of US-led globalism is coming to an end," Hatoyama wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times last week.
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