Japan Democrats agree coalition

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Yukio Hatoyama

Japan's newly-elected Democratic Party (DPJ) has agreed to form a coalition with two smaller parties, officials from the parties have said, reports BBC.
The deal with the New People's Party and the Social Democratic Party came after agreement was reached on a proposal to move a US base in Okinawa.
Despite winning a landslide victory in last month's election, the DPJ needs support in parliament's upper house. DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama is set to be declared prime minister next week.
The DPJ victory on 30 August overturned five decades of near-unbroken rule by Japan's Liberal Democratic Party.
The DPJ won 308 seats of the 480-member lower house but needs the support of the smaller parties in the weaker upper house to ensure bills are not delayed.
"We've finally wrapped up talks. It's good we had a clean outcome. The three party leaders will meet in the afternoon and sign to confirm," said the DPJ secretary general, Katsuya Okada.
Talks had faltered on Tuesday over the wording of a proposal to move a US base in Okinawa and relocate some US troops out of Japan to the US territory of Guam, in the Pacific.