Contractor Held In Japan For Dumping Woman's Body

An American contractor working at a US military base on the Japanese island of Okinawa has been arrested on suspicion of dumping the body of a 20-year-old Japanese woman, police have said.

Kenneth Shinzato, a 32-year-old civilian, has admitted abandoning the corpse but did not say whether he killed the woman, who disappeared last month, a spokesman for Okinawa police said.
He was arrested after being questioned over the woman's disappearance and gave investigators the location of the body - a forest in central Okinawa.
The woman, identified as Rina Shimabukuro, had not been seen since 28 April, when she messaged her boyfriend to say she was going for a walk.

Police said they suspect Shinzato was also responsible for her death. He has not been charged.
Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida has summoned the US ambassador Caroline Kennedy to lodge a formal protest.
He said: "I expressed a strong regret to Ambassador Kennedy and lodged a stern protest.
"I told her an incident like this is inexcusable and that I feel strong indignation."
Ms Kennedy said the US would redouble efforts to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents.
John Kirby, a spokesman for the US State Department, said: "This is a terrible tragedy and it's obviously an outrage. We're treating this situation with the utmost seriousness."
Local media reported that Shinzato worked at the Kadena Air Base.
The case is likely to reignite opposition to the US ahead of President Barack Obama's visit to Japan next week.
Mr Obama, who will attend a G7 summit, is set to become the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima, which was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945.
Okinawa hosts more than half of the 50,000 US troops based in Japan, with US installations taking up around 18% of the land.
Anti-US military sentiment is high on the island, with strong opposition to the relocation of US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma which has led to long delays.
It comes after a US sailor was arrested in March over the alleged rape of a Japanese woman at a hotel on the island.