Good luck, Sergeant
 

We've got a lot of problems brewing over in Japan. The new government is trying to renegotiate the SOFA - especially the provisions regarding turning soldiers over prior to indictment so that the police can interrogate them. This has been a story running for quite a while in the news over in Japan, they handed down the idictment, today. I hope it works out for him.
v/r
phil


http://www.japantoday.com/category/c...ase-in-okinawa

U.S. soldier indicted over hit-and-run case in Okinawa
Thursday 07th January, 01:30 PM JST

NAHA —
Prosecutors indicted a U.S. soldier Thursday on a charge of involvement in a fatal hit-and-run accident in November in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, investigators said.

C*** G***, a 27-year-old staff sergeant with the U.S. Army Special Forces known as the Green Berets, is expected to be handed over by the U.S. military to Japanese authority as early as Thursday in line with the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement. The staff sergeant at the Torii Communication Station in Yomitan is charged with negligent driving resulting in the death of 66-year-old Masakazu Hokama on Nov 7.