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  "id": 11859401,
  "title": "US Marine arrested on suspicion of murder in Japan's Okinawa",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/04/us-marine-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-in-japans-okinawa-11859401",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-04T05:58:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Recorder",
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    "url": "https://www.brecorder.com/news/40442579/us-marine-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-in-japans-okinawa"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "TOKYO: A 20-year-old US Marine was arrested on Sunday in Japan’s Okinawa prefecture on suspicion of robbing and murdering a Japanese woman, police said. Devin Jacob Ballard, stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the country’s southernmost prefecture, is suspected of killing Anna Yagi, 39, in a hotel in the capital Naha on Saturday, police said. Ballard denied the allegations, police…",
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        "title": "US Marine arrested on suspicion of murder in Japan’s Okinawa",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/04/us-marine-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-in-japans-okinawa",
        "published": "2026-10-04T03:48:07.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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