The Japan-US alliance has underwritten stability in North East Asia for more than half a century.

Japan - banned from retaining "war potential" by its pacifist constitution - subsidises a US troop presence. In return the US assumes responsibility for Japan's security.

The majority of the Japanese public support the status quo, despite localised tensions over US bases.

Yet there is concern that reliance on the US is both forcing involvement - albeit on a very small scale - in US-led conflicts and having too great an impact on taxpayers.

On the campaign trail, Mr Hatoyama took aim at these concerns, promising a more "autonomous" foreign strategy based on "equal" ties with the US.

He and his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) promised to end a highly contentious refuelling mission supporting US-led operations in Afghanistan.

He also pledged to re-examine both the conditions under which Japan hosts US troops and a 2006 realignment deal that would see Japan fund a replacement base in Okinawa and the transfer of 8,000 US marines to Guam.

The US voiced swift opposition. Washington had "no intention of renegotiating" the deal, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said a day after the election. A Pentagon spokesman later urged Japan to fulfil its "international responsibility" by continuing the Afghan mission.

Tomohiko Taniguchi, a foreign policy analyst and professor at Keio University, says that while he does not expect any major change overnight as a result of the new government, a "shaking of the foundation that has sustained the alliance" between the US and Japan is likely.

He says the Democrats' aim to reduce the cost of hosting US troops will be a problem, because it conflicts with Japan's ongoing need to incentivise their presence.

And he questions whether talk of "equality" with Washington is realistic - particularly given concerns over North Korea's nuclear belligerence and China's military build-up.

"Japan is not a nuclear nation and the nuclear umbrella can be provided only by the United States, so Japan cannot claim equal status," he says.

Nicholas Szechenyi, of the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies, says Mr Hatoyama needs to explain what he means by an equal relationship.

"If it means being proactive and sharing ideas with Washington about how they see the relationship evolving, that would be very welcome. But merely articulating grievances is not enough to jump-start the relationship for the future," he said.

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The US government has every reason to believe that at least six of the petitioners shortly will be resettled in Palau, although it is impossible to be certain until they actually board the plane," Ms Kagan wrote in a letter to the Supreme Court.

The exact date of departure is classified.

In a separate letter to the court, Sabin Willett, a lawyer representing the Uighurs, said one of the 13, Arkin Mahmud, has not been offered a chance to resettle in Palau, or elsewhere.

Four other Uighur detainees are now in Bermuda and another five went to Albania in 2006.

Palau agreed to a US request to temporarily resettle the Uighurs after the Pentagon determined last year that they were not "enemy combatants".

The tiny Pacific nation does not have diplomatic relations with China.

Instead, it has developed strong ties with Taiwan, which Beijing regards as its renegade province.

The group of 22 Chinese Muslims were captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2001.

The US has said it will not send them back to China for fear they will be tortured or executed.

Beijing demands their handover, saying the detainees are leading an Islamic separatist movement in western China.

Guantanamo Bay officials have been attempting to fulfil US President Barack Obama's order to close the controversial detention facility in Cuba by early next year.

Palau, a former US trust territory, is an archipelago of eight main islands plus more than 250 islets that is best known for diving and tourism and is located some 800km (500 miles) east of the Philippines.

Palau has retained close ties with Washington since independence in 1994 when it signed a Compact of Free Association with the US. It relies heavily on the US for aid and defence.

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According to one report, the latest incidents took the number of people killed over the weekend to at least 39.

Five Indian soldiers were killed and four wounded in two separate gunbattles in Poonch district, 160 miles (260 km) to the north of Jammu

The encounters took place on late Saturday afternoon and lasted for several hours," said a defence official.

Three separatists including a leader of the Hizbul Mujahideen group, Abu Jaffer, were killed in the shootouts, the official said.

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