东京：警方周日（10月4日）表示，一名驻扎在日本南部冲绳岛的20岁美军陆战队员因涉嫌谋杀一名日本女性被捕。
TOKYO: A 20-year-old US Marine stationed on Japan's southern island of Okinawa was arrested on suspicion of the murder of a Japanese woman, police said on Sunday (Oct 4).
一名当地警方发言人告诉法新社，该嫌疑人“周六在那霸一家酒店杀害了这名39岁女性并窃取了她的钱包”。
The suspect "killed the 39-year-old woman at a hotel in Naha and stole her wallet on Saturday", a local police spokesman told AFP.
美国大使乔治·格拉斯在社交媒体上发文称，他已与日本外务省和冲绳县知事通话，表示“我们深切哀悼，并承诺在调查继续进行中全力配合”。
US Ambassador George Glass posted on social media that he had spoken with Japan's foreign ministry and Okinawa's governor to offer "our sincere condolences and pledging full cooperation as the investigation continues".
公共广播机构NHK和其他日本媒体援引调查消息来源报道，事发地附近的监控录像显示，一名外籍男子与一名女子进入房间，随后带着女子的随身物品离开。
Public broadcaster NHK and other Japanese media outlets, citing investigation sources, reported that CCTV footage from near the scene showed a foreign man entering a room with a woman and later leaving with her belongings.
NHK报道，警方随后找到了一名符合录像中嫌疑人描述的20岁男子，要求其自愿前往当地派出所接受询问，随后将其逮捕。据报道，他否认了指控。美国在日本驻扎约5.4万名军事人员，主要集中在冲绳。
Police then found the 20-year-old man, who matched the description of the suspect seen in the footage, and asked him to accompany them voluntarily to a local police station where he was arrested, NHK reported. He reportedly denied the charges. The United States has around 54,000 military personnel stationed in Japan, mostly on Okinawa.
美军人员涉及的一系列犯罪，包括强奸、袭击、肇事逃逸和酒驾事故，长期以来在冲绳引发抗议，并成为亲密安全盟友日本与美国关系中的常见刺激因素。
A series of crimes including rapes, assaults, hit-and-run and drink-driving accidents by US personnel have long sparked protests on Okinawa and have been a frequent irritant in relations between close security allies Japan and the US.