According to a report by Japan's Fuji TV station today, in response to the suspected murder of the US military stationed in Japan in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan's Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi summoned the US military commander in Japan, saying that Japan “takes the incident extremely seriously” and protested against the US side. Japanese police arrested an American soldier stationed in Okinawa on October 4. This person is suspected of robbing and killing a local woman at a hotel in Naha city in the early morning of October 3. According to a report by the Japan Broadcasting Association today, the victim had a rope-like object wrapped around her neck, leaving traces of being strangled. The cause of death was asphyxiation caused by compression on her neck. The suspect, US Marine Corps Senior Soldier Devin Jacob Ballard, who belongs to the US military base in Japan in Futenma, denied the accusations during the investigation, saying “I don't know.”

According to a report by Japan's Fuji TV station today, in response to the suspected murder of the US military stationed in Japan in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan's Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi summoned the US military commander in Japan, saying that Japan “takes the incident extremely seriously” and protested against the US side. Japanese police arrested an American soldier stationed in Okinawa on October 4. This person is suspected of robbing and killing a local woman at a hotel in Naha city in the early morning of October 3. According to a report by the Japan Broadcasting Association today, the victim had a rope-like object wrapped around her neck, leaving traces of being strangled. The cause of death was asphyxiation caused by compression on her neck. The suspect, US Marine Corps Senior Soldier Devin Jacob Ballard, who belongs to the US military base in Japan in Futenma, denied the accusations during the investigation, saying “I don't know.”