🇯🇵🇺🇸 NYT: Japan filed an official protest with the U.S. after 20-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Devin J. Ballard was arrested over the death of 39-year-old Anna Yagi, who was found Saturday in a Naha, Okinawa hotel, rekindling long-standing tensions surrounding the U.S. military presence on the island.

🇯🇵🇺🇸 NYT: Japan filed an official protest with the U.S. after 20-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Devin J. Ballard was arrested over the death of 39-year-old Anna Yagi, who was found Saturday in a Naha, Okinawa hotel, rekindling long-standing tensions surrounding the U.S. military presence on the island.

The III Marine Expeditionary Force confirmed that Marines are in custody and stated it takes the allegations "very seriously," as the case comes amid a broader political shift in Okinawa following the election last month of conservative Governor Genta Kuja, who supports Japan's push to expand U.S. military facilities there to counter China.