Okinawa protests central government not sharing U.S. troop sex crime cases

The Okinawa governor protested Wednesday to the central government for not sharing information about cases of U.S. military personnel accused of committing sexual crimes in the southern Japan island prefecture.During a meeting with Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa in Tokyo, Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki called it an "extremely big problem" that her ministry failed to inform the prefecture of the cases successively revealed by media reports since last week.Kamikawa told Tamaki that the central government is asking the United States to thoroughly implement countermeasures to prevent a recurrence, s…READ FULL ARTICLE