Clinton visits Japan as US disaster relief warms ties

TOKYO: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton travels to Japan on Sunday, confirming a strategic alliance that has been strained by a conflict of persistent military base, but reinforced by a major effort in disaster relief American.

Since the massive earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, sparking a nuclear crisis, U.S. forces have launched a search muscle, rescue and relief with 20,000 soldiers and dozens of ships and aircraft.

The helicopters flew missions in support of a U.S. aircraft carrier, the Marines helped to clarify the airport by the tsunami ravaged Sendai which reopened last week, and thousands joined a search for three days of the battered coast to organisms.

U.S. nuclear experts have offered advice on the stabilization of the plant affected by the tsunami Fukushima Atomic Energy Agency, where the U.S. military flew in coolants and deployed two barges and freshwater pumps for fire help extinguish hot reactors.

The daily Yomiuri Shimbun in an editorial last week reflects a view expressed by many survivors of the tsunami disaster that devastated a vast expanse of the Pacific coast of Japan and left over 13,000 dead and 14,000 missing.