NAHA, OKINAWA PREF. – U.S. military personnel in Okinawa committed only 32 crimes last year, falling about 40 percent from 2012 to the lowest level since the island prefecture’s return to Japan from U.S. control in 1972, it was reported at a bilateral governmental meeting Tuesday.
The meeting was held at the Foreign Ministry’s Okinawa office, attended by working-level officials from both governments.
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