Two US sailors were sentenced and sent to prison in Okinawa, Japan on Friday for the rape and robbery of a young Japanese woman, refueling long-standing anger against the occupation by the American military in Japan. The two servicemen, Christopher Browning and Skyler Dozierwalker, were sentenced by Okinawa's Naha District Court to a Japanese prison for the brutal rape a local woman in her 20s in a parking garage last October. Dozierwalker received nine years in jail while Browning was sentenced for ten, as he was also charged with robbing the woman of 7,000 yen ($75). |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.