OKINAWA - Prosecutors indicted a 20-year-old US Marine on Oct 25 on suspicion of robbing and murdering a woman in Okinawa Prefecture earlier in October. Devin Ballard, who is stationed at Futenma Air Base, is charged with killing the woman by wrapping a phone cord around her neck at a hotel in Naha»»»

Assembly on the island, where tens of thousands of US soldiers are stationed, seeks change after Marine arrested. The prefectural assembly of Okinawa has called for a review of an agreement overseeing the stationing of United States military forces on the Japanese island. The assembly adopted the r»»»