Marine Accused of Rape in Japan
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Japanese police arrested a U.S. Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in southern Japan on Sunday
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Video posted Tuesday on a militant Islamic Web site showed what it claimed was a Japanese captive kidnapped by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group and threatened to behead him within 48 hours unless Japan pulls its troops from Iraq. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi rejected the demand.
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Japan has confirmed that the headless body found in Baghdad on Saturday is of the Japanese being held captive in Iraq. An armed group in Iraq had on Tuesday threatened to behead Shosei Koda, 24, within 48-hours unless Japan pulled its troops out of Iraq.
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U.S. military authorities held preliminary hearings Friday to determine whether four Marines who had been charged with raping a Japanese woman last year should be court-martialed.
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The U.S. Marine accused of leading his unit in killing 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005 will face voluntary manslaughter and other charges but not more serious murder charges, officials said on Monday.
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Japanese police arrested a U.S. sailor on Thursday for attempted murder by stabbing a 16-year-old girl and a young woman, a year after another U.S. sailor was jailed for life for murder in the same city.
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The Islamic militant group of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi reportedly claims to have taken a Japanese citizen hostage in Iraq. In a video shown on the Internet, the group threatens to execute him if Tokyo does not withdraw its troops from Iraq in 48 hours.
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Japanese prosecutors said Friday they expect to keep a US Marine in detention for at least two weeks more before deciding whether to bring charges over allegations he raped a girl of 14.
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A U.S. battalion commander and an enlisted man will face courts-martial on charges related to the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005, the Marines said on Friday.
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A US marine is sentenced to 40 years in prison for raping a woman in the Philippines, while three men are cleared.
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A Marine captain has been told he will be criminally charged in connection with the killing of 24 civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha, his attorney said Monday.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., June 1 -- In the week after Marines killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, an angry group of townspeople went to the local military base alleging a "crime of war" and demanding an investigation, a military prosecutor said Friday.
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Japan&#39;s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura has urged the captors of Shosei Koda in Iraq to set him free. In an interview to Aljazeera&#39;s correspondent in Tokyo on Wednesday, he said, &quot;Koda is a civilian who
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Japanese police arrested an American sailor Thursday on suspicion of attempted murder after two women were stabbed near a naval base south of Tokyo, officials said.
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A Marine drill instructor has been charged with 225 criminal counts connected to abusing recruits, a Marines spokesman said Thursday.
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Top Japanese officials on Tuesday  deplored the suspected rape of a 14-year-old girl by a U.S.  Marine on the southern island of Okinawa, an episode with  echoes of a 1995 incident that jolted the U.S.-Japan security  alliance.
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SAN DIEGO, July 16 -- A Marine charged with murdering two Iraqi girls and killing other civilians in the town of Haditha believed he was following procedure by confronting a threat with deadly force, his attorney said Monday at the military equivalent of a grand jury hearing.