 Nozomi points to two likely considerations, an April summit between President Biden and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Okinawan prefectural assembly elections last month. Nozomi says Tokyo didn't want the U.S. military issue to mar either of those events, and it didn't. But in 1995, three U.S. servicemen's rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl led to a U.S.-Japan agreement to relocate submarines from Okinawa to Guam.