一名女子据称遭美国海军陆战队队员杀害，日本首相周一（10月5日）称，此事是“丧心病狂的罪行”。最新一起涉及美军的暴力指控引发公众愤怒。
woman's murder allegedly committed by a US Marine is a "heinous crime", Japan's premier said on Monday (Oct 5), as the new accusation of violence involving American forces sparked public outrage.
长期以来，美国军人实施的强奸、袭击、肇事逃逸和酒驾等犯罪行为，在该岛引发了一波又一波抗议。该岛承担了全国约70%的驻日美军设施，负担之重与其人口比例明显失衡。
Crimes including rapes, assaults, hit-and-run and drunk-driving accidents by US personnel have long sparked protests on the island, which bears a disproportionate burden of hosting about 70 per cent of US military facilities in Japan.
警方周日表示，最新案件涉及一名驻扎在冲绳南部岛屿的美国海军陆战队队员。他因涉嫌在那霸市一家酒店杀害一名39岁女子并盗窃其钱包而被捕。
The new case involves a US Marine stationed on the southern island of Okinawa who was arrested on suspicion of killing a 39-year-old woman at a hotel in the city of Naha and stealing her wallet, police said Sunday.
首相高市早苗对议员表示，政府已向美国提出严正交涉，敦促美方“全力配合调查”，并“对美军人员严格纪律管理”。高市早苗说：“发生这种丧心病狂的罪行，令人极为痛心。”
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told lawmakers that the government has lodged a strong protest with the US, urging their "full cooperation with the investigation" and "strict discipline among US military personnel". "The occurrence of such a heinous crime is extremely regrettable," Takaichi said.
据当地媒体报道，周日约100人参加了那霸市举行的集会，高举标语牌，对这起谋杀事件表示“强烈抗议”。
Around 100 people participated in a rally in Naha on Sunday, holding up placards stating their "strong protest" against the murder, local media reported.
内阁官房长官木原稔周一对记者表示，“政府将与美国合作，彻底确保此类事件不再发生，并减轻当地居民承受的负担”。
Chief cabinet secretary Minoru Kihara told reporters Monday that "the government will work with the United States to thoroughly make sure there will be no recurrence, and reduce burdens on local residents".
木原补充说，这名士兵被捕的消息传出后，日本外务大臣和防卫大臣立即要求美国高级官员前来会面，向其转达日方“极度失望”的心情并“提出严正交涉”。
News of the soldier's arrest immediately prompted Japan's foreign affairs and defence ministers to summon senior American officials to convey their "extreme disappointment" and "lodge strong protests", Kihara added.
就在几周前，冲绳选举古家稔为新一任县知事，结束了其前任长达八年的执政。前任长期主张将一座大型驻日美军基地迁出该岛。
The incident came just a few weeks after Okinawa elected Genta Koja as its new governor, ending the eight-year rule by his predecessor who had long pushed for a major US military base to be moved off the island.
42岁的古家接受了一项中央政府计划：将美国海军陆战队普天间基地保留在冲绳本岛，但迁往人口较少的地区。
Koja, 42, accepts a central government plan to keep the US Marine Corps' Futenma air base on Okinawa's main island, but to move it to a less populated location.
科贾称，这起抢劫杀人案“性质极其恶劣”。他周日对记者表示，此案“令当地居民深感震惊和恐惧，他们不得不与美军基地比邻而居”，并使居民心中产生了新的恐惧。这位州长说：“我怒不可遏。”
Calling the robbery-murder "extremely malicious in nature", Koja told reporters Sunday it "hugely shocked residents here who are forced to live side by side with the bases, and instilled new fear in them". "I am infuriated," the governor said.
他表示，这一事件表明，美国为“教育士兵、改善其行为”而采取的努力“完全没有奏效”，并补充称，他将于“很快”前往东京，向包括首相高市早苗在内的日本政府高级官员提出抗议。
He said the incident showed US efforts to "educate soldiers and improve their behaviour have not been functioning at all", adding he will "soon" travel to Tokyo to lodge a protest with top government officials including Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
去年，日本一家法院判处一名美国海军陆战队士兵七年监禁。该士兵被控扼住一名20多岁女子的脖子并企图强奸她。
Last year, a Japanese court sentenced a US Marine accused of choking and attempting to rape a woman in her 20s to seven years in prison.
2017年，一名前美国海军陆战队士兵兼军事基地文职人员因强奸并杀害冲绳当地一名女子，被判处终身监禁。
In 2017, a former US Marine and civilian military base worker was sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a local woman in Okinawa.