据多家日本媒体报道，日本检察官已起诉一名美国海军陆战队员，指控其本月早些时候在冲绳杀害并抢劫了一名女性。此案再次引发了民众对驻日美军行为的强烈愤慨。
Japanese prosecutors have indicted a US Marine on suspicion of murdering and robbing a woman in Okinawa earlier this month, multiple Japanese media outlets have reported, in a case that has prompted renewed outrage over the conduct of US troops in the country.
据日本广播协会（NHK）等媒体周日报道，20岁的海军陆战队下士德文·雅各布·巴拉德（Devin Jacob Ballard）隶属于驻扎在普天间空军基地的美国海军陆战队第三远征军。他被指控在冲绳首府那霸的一家酒店内，用电话线勒死一名女性，并窃取了装有钱包的背包。
Lance Corporal Devin Jacob Ballard, a 20-year-old Marine assigned to the III Marine Expeditionary Force at Futenma Air Station, is charged with killing a woman by strangling her with a phone cord at a hotel in Naha, Okinawa’s capital, and stealing her backpack containing a wallet, public broadcaster NHK and others, reported on Sunday.
美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）已联系美国海军陆战队和海军陆战队第三远征军寻求置评。
CNN has reached out to the US Marine Corps and the III Marine Expeditionary Force for comment.
冲绳警方此前告诉CNN，39岁的八木安娜（Anna Yagi，音译）于10月3日上午被发现倒在酒店房间内，当场被宣告死亡，死因为窒息。警方称，巴拉德在不到24小时后在市内行走时被捕。
Anna Yagi, 39, was found unresponsive in her hotel room and pronounced dead at the scene on the morning of October 3, Okinawa police previously told CNN, adding the cause of death was suffocation. Ballard was arrested less than 24 hours later while walking around the city, police said.
据NHK报道，CNN正在努力确认巴拉德的法律代理人。检察官尚未披露嫌疑人是否承认或否认指控。冲绳警方此前曾告诉CNN，巴拉德否认了这些指控。那霸地方检察厅周一拒绝就此案向CNN发表评论。
CNN is working to determine Ballard’s legal representation. The prosecutors have not disclosed whether the suspect has admitted or denied the charges, according to NHK. Okinawa police previously told CNN Ballard denied the charges.
针对巴拉德的案件是针对冲绳美军人员的一系列指控中的最新一起。长期以来，冲绳民众对美军在该岛链的存在一直感到愤怒并举行抗议。冲绳驻扎着多个美军设施，约有3万名美军士兵及其家属居住于此。
The Naha District Public Prosecutors Office declined to comment on the case to CNN on Monday. The case against Ballard is the latest in a string of allegations against US personnel in Okinawa, which has been the site of longstanding anger and protests over the American presence on the island chain.
巴拉德的被捕引发了当地的抗议，并招致了日本政界人士和领导人的谴责。高市早苗（Sanae Takaichi）首相表示，日本政府已向美方提出“强烈抗议”，并要求“对美军人员进行彻底的纪律约束，并采取全面措施防止犯罪和事故再次发生”。
Okinawa hosts several US military facilities and is home to about 30,000 US troops and their families. Ballard’s arrest sparked local protests and condemnation from politicians and leaders in Japan, including Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who said her government “strongly protested” to the US and called for “thorough discipline among US military personnel, and comprehensive measures to prevent the recurrence of crimes and accidents.”
冲绳县知事古谢玄太（Genta Koja）表示，这起谋杀指控“让我们别无选择，只能断定美军在维持纪律、教育人员及其他此类措施方面的努力完全无效”。
Okinawa Governor Genta Koja said the alleged murder “leaves us no choice but to conclude that the US military’s efforts in maintaining discipline, educating personnel, and other such measures are completely ineffective.”
巴拉德被捕后，驻扎在冲绳的美军被实施了为期一个月的宵禁，并被要求接受关于“标准、纪律以及我们作为冲绳社区成员的责任”的培训。去年，22岁的美国海军陆战队下士贾梅尔·克莱顿（Jamel Clayton）因在冲绳勒死并性侵一名女性被判处七年监禁。2024年，25岁的美国空军成员布伦农·R·E·华盛顿（Brennon R. E. Washington）因绑架和强奸一名未成年少女被判处五年监禁。
Following Ballard’s arrest, US troops on the island were placed under a monthlong curfew and were required to undertake training on “standards, discipline, and our responsibilities as members of the Okinawan community.”Last year, US Marine Lance Corporal Jamel Clayton, 22, was sentenced to seven years in prison after he was convicted of strangling and sexually assaulting a woman in Okinawa. In 2024, US Air Force member Brennon R. E. Washington, 25, was sentenced to five years for kidnapping and raping an underage girl.
2016年，在一名驻扎在美军嘉手纳空军基地的文职人员杀害一名当地女性后，数万人举行示威，要求结束美军在冲绳的驻扎。
In 2016, tens of thousands of people demonstrated calling for an end to the US military presence on Okinawa following the killing of a local woman by a civilian worker stationed at the US Kadena Air Base.