Reposted by David Swanson
"Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi summoned Glass to the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo ... and lodged a strong protest."
For Tokyo, it's a matter of priorities, a cost-benefit analysis. Keeping the Marines in Okinawa is very important to them; saving women's lives is not.
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U.S. Marine held in strangulation death of woman in Okinawa hotel | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
Okinawa police arrested a U.S. Marine on suspicion of murdering a local woman at a hotel, a crime that has drawn outrage from exasperated residents, the central government and the new prefectural gove...