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The Japanese court sentenced the US Marine Corps to seven years in prison after he pleaded guilty of a sexual attack on a woman in Akina last year.
22 -year -old CPL Jamil Clayton attacked the woman in the 20th, strangling her behind and trying sexual intercourse.
To the right is one of the lines involving the US troops based in Akina’s archipelago, where more than half of the 54,000 US soldiers serve in Japan.
Previous crimes committed by US staff have caused anger and protests by locals in Akinov, the largest of whom took 30 years ago, when tens of thousands went out after the rape of a 12-year-old girl.
In the last year alone, four cases of sexual attack occurred in Akinau, including a member of the Brennan Washington Air Force, which in December 2024 was issued five years for rape and abduction of a minor girl.
Prosecutors in the case of Tuesday asked for 10 years for Claytan, According to the star and lanes covering the US military news.
Clayton denied all charges against him. His defense pointed to the “alcoholic intoxication” of the young woman and inconsistency in her history during the trial in early June.
But the judges in the district court Naha gave Clayitan, Ohio, seven years in prison after search The victim’s testimony had a “high level of authority throughout”Kyodo news agency reports.
During the verdict, Judge Kozuhik Obat called the attack “vicious”, and the woman was panting from one -day minutes, stars and lanes said.
According to Kyoda, the woman was injured in the eyes that took two weeks to cure.
Local opposition to US bases goes beyond criminal cases, spreading the noise of the aircraft and pollution.
There were previous efforts to move American bases into less settlements, but many locals want to be removed at all.
Experts, however, say the Japanese military union with the United States is too strong to happen. And they say that Tokyo needs Washington, given the problems that it faces, whether there will be growing claims in China for controversial waters and islands, or North Korea missile trials.
