Japan's PM Takaichi protests to US over Marine's Okinawa murder arrest - Nikkei Asia
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TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi registered a protest with the United States on Sunday after a US Marine was arrested on suspicion of robbing and murdering a Japanese woman in Okinawa.
TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi registered a protest with the United States on Sunday after a US Marine was arrested on suspicion of robbing and murdering a Japanese woman in Okinawa.
Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, is suspected of killing Anna Yagi, 39, in a hotel in Naha, the capital of the southernmost prefecture, on Saturday and taking her wallet and backpack, police said. Ballard denied the allegations, police said.
"The occurrence of such an extremely brutal and vicious incident is extremely regrettable," Takaichi said in a statement.
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