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Drunken U.S. sailor trespasses on junior high school

Japanese police on early January 18 arrested a U.S. sailor for trespassing on a junior high school in Yokosuka City.

The suspect James Arlon Baker, 21, private second class, belongs to the U.S. Yokosuka Naval Base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was intoxicated at that time.

The latest incident came only two weeks after a sailor of a U.S. aircraft carrier in Yokosuka was arrested on suspicion of robbing and murdering a woman on her way to work. James Kelly, the commander, and other senior officials of the U.S. Forces in Japan apologized for the incident, pledging that discipline on the U.S. bases will be tightened so that there will be no such incidents anymore
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The Japanese Communist Party Kanagawa Prefectural Committee and peace organizations in the prefecture on January 18 published statements protesting against the recent crimes caused by U.S. soldiers. Copies of these statements demanding that U.S. military bases in Japan be removed were sent to U.S. President George W. Bush.
- Akahata, January 19, 2006