TOKYO — Two US marines in Japan’s Okinawa are under investigation for alleged rapes, police said Thursday, the latest in a string of assault cases that have angered residents.
The United States has around 54,000 military personnel stationed in Japan — mostly on the subtropical southern island of Okinawa, to the east of Taiwan.“A US marine in his 20s is suspected of raping a Japanese woman at an American military base in March, and is also suspected of injuring another woman,” a local police official told AFP. The second marine, also in his 20s, is suspected of raping a Japanese woman at a US base in January, the official said.
