The incident threatened to reignite opposition to the US military presence on Okinawa, home to around 30,000 American service members. (EPA Images pic) TOKYO: Japan is demanding tighter discipline among American troops after a Marine Corps lance corporal was arrested on suspicion of murdering a wom»»»

TOKYO: Japanese police arrested a US Marine in the alleged robbery and murder of a woman on Okinawa, officials said Sunday, the latest criminal case on the southern island where the heavy American troop presence has remained a sensitive issue. The Okinawa prefectural police said t ... »»»

Anna Yagi was a 39-year-old Japanese woman who was found dead in a hotel in Naha, the capital of Japan’s Okinawa prefecture, on Saturday. Japanese police suspect that a US Marine killed her. Yagi was found dead at a hotel in Naha, a city in Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture. The police inves»»»

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 polic»»»

Tokyo: A US Marine stationed on Japan's southern island of Okinawa was arrested on suspicion of the murder of a Japanese woman, police said on Sunday. The suspect "killed the 39-year-old woman at a hotel in Naha and stole her wallet on Saturday", a local police spokesman told AFP. Crimes by US pers»»»