Washington asked Tokyo to quintuple payment for U.S. forces in Japan

The United States asked Japan earlier this year to pay significantly more -- about five times as much per year -- to support U.S. forces based on the soil of its major Asian ally, government sources said Saturday.The request was delivered by John Bolton, then national security adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, when he visited Japan in July for talks with top officials, including then Foreign Minister Taro Kono and then Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya, the Japanese sources said, adding that Tokyo rejected the request.In Japan's fiscal 2019 draft budget, about 197.4 billion yen ($1.8 bil…READ FULL ARTICLE