Japanese Isle May Be Home for Accused U.S. Deserter
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MANO, SADO ISLAND, Japan  - The shop where  19-year-old Hitomi Soga bought groceries one August evening  still stands on the lonely road where she and her mother were  kidnapped 26 years ago by North Korean agents.
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States, which may pave the way for him to leave Japan after almost half a year in detention. He has been held in Japan since July when he was stopped with a passport that US officials said was invalid.
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Villagers on the remote Japanese isle of Sado have warmly welcomed U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins since he arrived with his Japanese wife and their two North Korea-born daughters a week ago, his wife said Tuesday.
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TOKYO -- Alleged US Army deserter Charles Robert Jenkins said yesterday that he would surrender to US military authorities to face charges that he deserted his post along the demilitarized zone dividing North and South Korea in the 1960s.
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US Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins has given himself up at an American base in Japan to face charges that he deserted to communist North Korea four decades ago while on patrol in South Korea.
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A former U.S. army sergeant who deserted  to North Korea nearly four decades ago left a U.S. military  base near Tokyo on Tuesday for a new life with his family in  his Japanese wife's home town.
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US deserter and former Army Sgt. Charles Jenkins arrived Tuesday on a remote Japanese island, where he said he hoped to &quot;live my remaining days with my wife and children.
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A former US serviceman accused of deserting while serving in South Korea in 1965 turned himself in on Saturday to the US military at a base near Tokyo.
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Condemnations rang out from several corners in Japan today after a 38-year-old U.S. Marine was accused of raping a 14-year-old local girl in Okinawa. Police also released more details of the alleged crime, saying the Marine had offered to take the girl home on his motorcycle.
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Alleged U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins &#151; accused of defecting to North Korea in 1965 and currently in Japan &#151; is ready to meet American military officials to discuss a plea bargain, a media report said Friday, citing unidentified government sources.
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Former US Army Sgt. Charles Jenkins believes his conviction and sentence to 30 days in jail for desertion after nearly 40 years in North Korea is âvery fair,â his defence lawyer said in Japan today.
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arrived on a remote island in northern Japan to start a new life with his Japanese wife and their two daughters. court-martial last month after saying he deserted from South Korea because he was frightened.
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A U.S. soldier accused of deserting to  North Korea in 1965 and now in hospital in Japan said on  Wednesday he was willing to report voluntarily to the U.S.  military in Japan to face charges, a step toward resolving a  diplomatic standoff between Tokyo and Washington.
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Legal procedures are under way to decide the fate of U.S. Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, accused of deserting to North Korea four decades ago, a U.S. Army official said Monday.
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TOKYO - Accused US Army deserter Charles Jenkins will be court-martialed at Camp Zama near Tokyo on Wednesday, with some experts expecting a sentence to be passed within the day.
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Tokyo - US army deserter Charles Jenkins, who spent nearly four decades in North Korea, finally saw freedom on Tuesday as he left a US base with his Japanese wife for a new home on a small island north of Tokyo.
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Saluting and standing at attention, accused American army deserter Charles Jenkins surrendered to US military authorities at a base near Tokyo, today, to face charges that he left his unit in 1965 and defected to North Korea.