A civilian employee of the U.S. Air Force in Okinawa indicted over a fatal vehicle collision last January pleaded guilty Monday at the opening of his trial, which is a first under a new bilateral arrangement on the handling of personnel at U.S. bases.
The Naha District Public Prosecutor's Office indicted Rufus James Ramsey III in November after the United States and Japan agreed to change the operational implementation of the Status of Forces Agreement, which governs the handling of U.S. service personnel in Japan, to conditionally grant Japan jurisdiction over crimes involving nonmilitary personnel at U.S. bases. (Japan Times)
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