US Marine indictment in Okinawa murder trial renews anti-base movement
Prosecutors indicted a 20-year-old US Marine on Sunday on suspicion of robbing and murdering a woman in Okinawa earlier this month as the case renews anti-base sentiment among locals burdened with hosting the bulk of US military installations in Japan. 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…
We haven't written up this one. South China Morning Post has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
