Outrage in Japan after U.S. Marine accused of murdering Okinawan woman

All her life, 24-year-old Sorane Sakihama has heard stories about crimes committed against Japanese women by U.S. soldiers stationed in Okinawa, Japan. So when a U.S. Marine was arrested this week on suspicion of robbing and killing a local woman at a hotel in the island’s capital city of Naha, Sakihama decided she had to do something. “As an Okinawan, I don’t want to see any victims again,” she told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. “We have to end this history.” Sakihama helped organize a protest outside the U.S. embassy in Tokyo on Tuesday, where hundreds of people came…