Investigative sources revealed on Wednesday that Justin Castellanos, a U.S. Navy sailor who was arrested over the suspicion of raping a Japanese woman in Okinawa has finally admitted to the charge, having initially denied it.
This seaman at the U.S. Marines’ Camp Schwab in northern Okinawa, was arrested on March 13 on suspicion of raping the woman in her 40s at a hotel in the prefectural capital of Naha early that morning. Police allege Castellanos took the woman, a tourist from southwestern Japan’s Fukuoka Prefecture, into his room after finding her asleep in a hotel corridor and raped her there.
The suspect and the woman were both staying at the hotel but were not acquainted, the police said.
The alleged rape has stirred protests by thousands of people in Okinawa, which hosts the bulk of U.S. military facilities in Japan.
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