There were three other sexual abuse cases involving U.S. military personnel stationed in Okinawa Prefecture last year and this year, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi disclosed Wednesday, in addition to the two reported cases which led to indictment.
His comments came amid a flood of complaints from people in Okinawa and others that the central government failed to act quickly to inform local officials of recent sexual offense cases involving U.S. servicemen in the prefecture, where U.S. military bases are highly concentrated.
An airman was indicted in March on the charges of kidnapping and raping a girl in December last year, and a Marine was prosecuted last month for injuring a woman and attempting to sexually assault her in May.
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