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Naha, Okinawa Pref., Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)–The U.S. military in Okinawa Prefecture has said that all U.S. troops stationed in the southernmost Japan prefecture will observe a 48-hour operational pause from noon Wednesday, following the alleged murder of a local woman by a Marine, who was arrested…
Tokyo, Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)–Okinawa Governor Genta Koja, at a meeting with Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Wednesday, lodged a protest following the murder and robbery allegedly committed by a U.S. Marine in the southernmost Japan prefecture earlier this month. At the meeting, held at…
Naha, Okinawa Pref., Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)–Okinawa Governor Genta Koja will visit Tokyo on Wednesday for the first time since his election last month to meet with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi. Following the arrest of a U.S.…
(The headline and the first paragraph are corrected in Monday’s story on Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s protest lodged to the United States following the arrest of a U.S. Marine in Okinawa Prefecture on suspicion of murder and robbery. A substitute story follows.) Japan’s Takaichi…
Naha, Okinawa Pref., Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)–Okinawa Governor Genta Koja summoned Lt. Gen. Benjamin Watson, head of U.S. forces in Japan, to the prefectural government office to protest the arrest of a Marine on suspicion of murdering a woman in the southern Japan prefecture. Koja said that the…
