WorldThe GuardianUS marine arrested in Japan on suspicion of killing woman, police say
A US marine has been arrested in Okinawa, Japan, accused of murdering a 39-year-old Japanese woman at a hotel and stealing her belongings.
Suspect allegedly killed woman at hotel in Okinawa as prime minister calls crime ‘exceptionally brutal and vicious’
Lance Cpl Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, was arrested in Okinawa on suspicion of murdering Anna Yagi, 39, at a hotel in Naha.
CCTV footage showed a foreign man entering a room with a woman and later leaving with her belongings, leading police to Ballard.
Japan's prime minister lodged a formal protest with the US, calling the crime exceptionally brutal and demanding stricter military discipline.
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