Japan protests US Marine arrest

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Japan lodged a formal protest with the United States after police arrested a U.S. Marine in Okinawa on suspicion of killing and robbing a 39-year-old woman.

The Guardian

US marine arrested in Japan on suspicion of killing woman, police say

Suspect allegedly killed woman at hotel in Okinawa as prime minister calls crime ‘exceptionally brutal and vicious’ A US marine stationed on Japan ’s southern island of Okinawa is accused of murdering a Japanese woman and has been arrested on suspicion of murder, police said on Sunday. The suspect allegedly “killed [a] 39-year-old woman at a hotel in Naha and stole her wallet” as well as her backpack, local police told news media outlets. Continue reading. . .

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New York Times

Japan Protests After U.S. Marine Is Accused of Killing Woman in Okinawa

The matter threatened to revive tensions over the American military presence on the Japanese archipelago.

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Público

Japan lodges formal protest with the U.S. over a Marine accused of killing a woman in Okinawa

Davin Ballard was arrested in the early hours of Sunday, suspected of robbing and killing a 39-year-old woman. The incident could rekindle opposition to the U.S. military presence on the archipelago.

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HotNews

Tension in Tokyo after American Marine is charged with murder and robbery

An American Marine, 20, was arrested Sunday in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, on suspicion of robbing and killing a local woman, police said, Reuters reported. Devin Jacob Ballard, based at the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Japan's southernmost prefecture, is suspected of ...

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Tension in Tokyo after American Marine is charged with murder and robbery

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Japan protests US Marine arrest

US marine arrested in Japan on suspicion of killing woman, police say

Japan Protests After U.S. Marine Is Accused of Killing Woman in Okinawa

Japan lodges formal protest with the U.S. over a Marine accused of killing a woman in Okinawa

Tension in Tokyo after American Marine is charged with murder and robbery

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