US troops in Japan under curfew after incidents: reports
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The US military will Wednesday slap a curfew on troops in the southern island of Okinawa after a series of incidents including an alleged rape that has led to new tensions, reports said.
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Japanese police have decided not to seek arrest warrants for four U.S. Marines who were being investigated for the alleged rape of a 19-year-old woman, Kyodo news agency said on Friday, citing sources involved.
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Japan will keep its troops in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said a day after insurgents fired explosives into a dining tent at a US Army base in the northern city of Mosul.
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Myanmar's junta imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the country's two main cities on Wednesday after pouring security forces into Yangon to try to end the biggest protests against military rule in nearly 20 years.
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A dusk-to-dawn curfew is in place in the Iraqi city of Samarra following a major offensive Friday in which at least 109 insurgents and one American soldier were killed, military officials said.
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An American civilian employee of the U.S.  military in Japan was arrested on Friday on suspicion of raping  a Japanese woman on the island of Okinawa, home to the largest  U.S. military presence in Japan, a police spokesman said.
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Japan is to tighten security at its military camp in Iraq after a rocket shell landed inside the facility, the latest sign of a worsening security situation that is fuelling demands in Japan that the troops be pulled out.
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Japan's prime minister was treated at a hospital for exhaustion Thursday, a day after he announced he would quit amid failure at the ballot box and a political brawl over the country's aid to U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi  plans to ask Washington to move some U.S. troops from the  southern island chain of Okinawa to locations outside Japan as  part of the U.S. government's review its global military  forces, Kyodo news agency reported Thursday.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Helicopters lifted people to  safety and soldiers handed out food and water as more tremors  jolted northern Japan Monday, arousing concerns about the  possibility of another powerful earthquake after the country's  deadliest in a decade killed at least 24 people.
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Several Japanese media outlets received a statement from a suspected Japanese ultra-leftist extremist group claiming responsibility for two small explosions outside a U.S. military base south of Tokyo, police said Saturday.
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Japan's military illegally gathered information on the activities of ordinary citizens in 2003 and 2004, including those who opposed the dispatch of Japanese troops to Iraq, Japan's Communist Party said on Wednesday.
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Okinawa's governor on Wednesday called for changes in an agreement governing the status of U.S. troops in Japan as diplomats flew to the island to try to soothe anger over the suspected rape of a schoolgirl by a U.S. Marine.
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Japanese authorities are investigating the alleged rape of a teenager by four US Marines in southwestern Japan last weekend, officials and media said Friday
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The Associated Press says US troops censored footage of an incident in which several civilians were killed.
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KADENA AIR BASE, Japan  - The arrival of 12 U.S. F-22 fighter planes at a U.S. air base on Japan's southern island of Okinawa was delayed on Sunday without word on a new date for their first deployment outside the United States.
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Japan says its troops in southern Iraq are still in a non-combat zone -- a prerequisite for their deployment -- as a poll shows most Japanese oppose extending their mission beyond next month.