Japan PM tries to deflect base feud, scandal weighs

2010/01/24 23:00:14 @Reuters: World News

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's leader on Monday stood by his conviction not to decide the fate of a U.S. base before the end of the May, even though the nagging issue is further eroding voter support already hurt by a funding scandal. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=0L_5va6IBBU:Idaauc3EKBk:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=0L_5va6IBBU:Idaauc3EKBk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=0L_5va6IBBU:Idaauc3EKBk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=0L_5va6IBBU:Idaauc3EKBk:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=0L_5va6IBBU:Idaauc3EKBk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/0L_5va6IBBU" height="1" width="1"/
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