TOKYO (Sputnik) — The Japanese government has lodged a protest with the United States after the US serviceman was arrested in Okinawa for drunk driving, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Hagiuda said Monday.
"Certain rules and strict discipline have been introduced, including restrictions on movement. They [rules] are compulsory indeed. I would like them to be respected," Hagiuda said.
According to Hagiuda, the complaint has been sent to the military base command and to the US Embassy in Tokyo.
In late May, former US Marine Kenneth Franklin Shinzato was arrested in Okinawa on suspicion of stabbing and strangling a 20-year-old Japanese woman near Kadena Air Base. Rina Shimabukuro disappeared on April 28 and was later found dead in a forest. Franklin has reportedly admitted to raping her and committing the murder.
