4 American Teenagers Arrested in Japan
TOKYO — Four teenagers from an American military
base in Japan were arrested on charges of attempted
murder on Saturday for allegedly toppling a woman
riding her motorbike, causing her to suffer a serious
head injury.
In the August episode, which has received national
coverage in Japan, a 23-year-old motorbike rider
suffered a fractured skull when she hit rope that
the authorities say had been strung across a road
by the four teenagers near the Yokota Air Base in Tokyo.
The suspects are three boys and a girl, ages 15 to 18,
who all are children of United States military personnel.
Local police officers arrested them after surveillance
videotapes showed them near the site of the crash.
One of the teenagers sought help from a passer-by
for the injured woman, according to news reports.
The police said that American officials were cooperating
in the investigation.
Base-related crime is a delicate issue in Japan, where
about 47,000 American troops are stationed under a
mutual security pact. The United States and Japan are
still negotiating the relocation of another United States
military base, the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma
in Okinawa, in the aftermath of a public outcry over
the rape of a local schoolgirl by three American
servicemen in 1995.
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