TOKYO, March 14 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese government lodged a protest with the United States over an alleged rape committed by a U.S. navy sailor in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa on Sunday, top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Monday.
The chief cabinet secretary told a press conference here that both Japanese foreign and defense ministries lodged protests with U.S. Embassy and U.S. forces stationed in Japan, adding that it was"extremely regrettable"that this crime happened.
Okinawan police on Sunday arrested 24- Justin Castellanos, a seaman at the U.S. Navy's Camp Schwab in northern Okinawa, over the allegation that he took a woman in her 40s to his room in a hotel in Naha, capital city of the prefecture, and committed the crime.
Local reports cited police as saying that the suspect denied the allegation.
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