US Marine arrested over alleged murder of woman in Okinawa, Japan | Asia News Week | ABC NEWS
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US Marine Lance Corporal Devin Jacob Ballard has been accused of killing a woman in Japan's Okinawa, sparking outcry across the country. Ballard has denied the allegations. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has called the killing "extremely brutal and heinous", and Tokyo said it has strongly protested to the United States. North Asia correspondent Natalie Whiting tells Asia News Week's Yvonne Yong that it's not the first such incident to have happened on the Japanese island chain near Taiwan and China. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Read more here: Note: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated. #ABCNEWS #ABCNEWSAustralia #ABCTheWorld #ABCAsiaPacific
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