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RAEL’S COMMENT: Yankees go home !
Tokyo has launched an official protest with Washington after a US sailor was arrested on suspicion of raping a Japanese tourist in Okinawa. The incident is likely to complicate plans to build a controversial new US airbase on the island.
Justin Castellanos, who was based at the US Navy’s Camp Schwab, is alleged to have raped a woman in her 40s at a hotel in Naha in the south of Okinawa.
“It was extremely regrettable that this case happened,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference, as cited by Kyodo news agency. The Japanese government has demanded that Washington “tighten discipline and prevent a recurrence of such incidents,” Suga added.