Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada listens to a question during the Lower House's budget committee session at the National Diet in Tokyo on November 4, 2009. Plans have been scrapped for a Washington meeting between Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the Okinawa issue. Getty Images logo Getty Images 27 months ago

Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada listens to a question during the Lower House's budget committee session at the National Diet in Tokyo on November 4, 2009. Plans have been scrapped for a Washington meeting between Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the Okinawa issue.

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