TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court has found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on Okinawa and sentenced him to seven years in prison, in a case that has triggered a… ...

Judicial members including Judge Kazuhiko Obata, center back, for a sexual assault case of a U.S. Marine sit at the Naha District Court in Okinawa prefecture's Naha, southern Japan, on June 24, 2025.

A U.S. Marine was convicted Tuesday of sexual assault and sentenced to seven years in a Japanese prison. Lance Cpl. James Clayton, 22, had been stationed in Okinawa, the southern Japanese ...