U.S. Marine Accused in Drink Drive Case as Japanese Man Dies

U.S. Marine Accused in Drink Drive Case as Japanese Man Dies
Visitors look out over U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan on Okinawa May 3, 2010. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo
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TOKYO–A Japanese man was killed in a truck collision involving a 21-year-old U.S. marine who was well over the legal alcohol limit for driving, police said of a case that was likely to stoke resentment over the U.S. military presence on the southern island of Okinawa.

In response to the Sunday’s fatal accident, U.S. forces in Japan banned, until further notice, all personnel in the country from drinking of alcohol.