Japan’s Takaichi protests to US after Marine accused of murder in Okinawa

Japanese Prime ?Minister Sanae Takaichi registered a protest with the ?United States on Sunday after a US ?Marine ?was arrested on suspicion of robbing and murdering a Japanese woman in Okinawa. Lance Corporal Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, is suspected of killing Anna Yagi, 39, ?in a hotel in Naha, the capital of the southernmost prefecture, on Saturday and taking her wallet and backpack, police said. Ballard denied the allegations, police said. “The occurrence of such an extremely brutal and vicious incident is extremely ?regrettable,” Takaichi said in a statement. “The government of Japan strongly protests to the US side and…