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The prefectural assembly of Okinawa has called for a review of an agreement overseeing the stationing of United States military forces on the Japanese island.
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The assembly adopted the resolution on Friday.
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The vote came after a US Marine was accused of robbing and killing a local woman.
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The call to adapt the Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement to urge the US military to prevent such incidents will be sent to the US embassy.
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call → allege → embassy
The assembly also passed a statement to the same effect addressed to the Japanese government.
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Ryotaro Odo, who heads the assembly’s special committee on US military bases, said the US military was “not functioning as an organisation”, pointing to failures in training and discipline.
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He called the killing “extremely heinous and despicable” and urged the military to cooperate with investigators and discipline those responsible.
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Some of the assembly’s members opposed the resolution because it failed to demand the dismissal of the US military chief in Okinawa, Japan’s Kyodo News agency reported.
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Lance-Corporal Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, has been accused of killing Anna Yagi, 39, at a hotel in Naha on Saturday.
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He has denied the allegations.
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The case has sparked a series of demonstrations in Tokyo and Okinawa.
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The island hosts the majority of the 54,000 US soldiers stationed in Japan.
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Crimes including rapes, assaults, hit-and-run and drink-driving incidents by US personnel have long sparked protests.
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The US military paused its operations for 48 hours from Wednesday and also imposed a 30-day curfew from midnight to 5am starting on Friday.
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Tokyo has called in the US ambassador and the US forces commander in Okinawa to protest the incident, and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has condemned the “heinous” crime.
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Okinawa, which was under US control from 1945 to 1972, still hosts many facilities used exclusively by US forces.
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The island’s assembly passed a similar resolution in 2024 after a series of sexual assaults by US servicemen came to light with the municipal assemblies of Naha, Ginowan, Miyakojima and Motobu filing protests.
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