The U.S. ambassador said his office was "providing full cooperation with the investigation."

A U.S. service member was arrested on suspicion of murder and robbery after a Japanese woman’s body was discovered in a hotel in Okinawa, local officials said, describing the alleged killing as a “heinous” incident that prompted the Japanese government to lodge a protest with the United States.

Shinjiro Koizumi, the Japanese minister of defense, said a U.S. Marine lance corporal was arrested on Sunday after the woman’s body was found early on Saturday in Naha, the capital city of the Okinawa prefecture.

NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, identified the suspect as Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, who was stationed at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, a base a few miles outside Naha. The broadcaster identified the alleged victim as Yagi Anna, 39, saying she was pronounced dead at the scene after being found at about 4:30 a.m. on Saturday.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said the Okinawa Prefectural Police were investigating the incident as a murder.

  • CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social
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    3 days ago

    It’s pretty incredible how you dorks would identify the motivation of say, Fox News blasting a case of a trans immigrant murdering a white woman 24/7 but can’t figure out why the Japanese media does the same thing with Okinawa, on a base that still exists not because of iMpeRiAliSm, the occupation treaty that ended the war Japan started being well over, but because Japan is terrified of China someday making them pay for their own historical crimes.