On the evening of the 14th, Japanese people held a rally near the US Embassy in Tokyo to protest the recent case of US soldiers stationed in Japan suspected of robbing and killing Okinawan women, and to oppose the upcoming Japan-US joint military exercises. The reporter saw on the scene that protesters chanted slogans such as “Withdraw the US military base from Okinawa” and “Don't kill people again.” The Japanese police dispatched a number of police cars and deployed police forces to maintain order, during which time they were pushed against protesters. On the 4th of this month, Okinawa police arrested Devin Ballard, a marine belonging to the US military's Futenma base. He is suspected of murdering a local woman at a hotel in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture in the early morning of the 3rd and stealing her wallet and other items. The Okinawa Prefectural Assembly passed a protest resolution and opinion on the 9th, demanding that effective measures be taken to prevent similar cases and fundamentally revise the Japan-US status agreement.

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