World | military bases Japan Busts US Sailor in Murder-Robbery Navy man charged in cabbie's stabbing outside Tokyo By Jason Farago Posted Apr 3, 2008 6:05 AM CDT Copied An elderly woman strolls past the U.S. Navy Yokosuka base, the headquarters of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa, FILE) Japanese police arrested a US sailor today on suspicion of stabbing a taxi driver to death and then robbing him, Reuters reports. The 22-year-old Nigerian national serving in the American Navy was already in US custody on charges of desertion. The American ambassador to Japan was forced to apologize for yet another US serviceman implicated in a crime in recent months. The arrest comes in the wake of a number of rape and sexual assault charges lodged against American troops stationed in Japan, particularly Okinawa. Recent large protests, uncommon in Japan, have sought to block expansion of America's military presence in the country. Currently a bill to fund US bases is facing gridlock in the Diet. Read These Next Now we know why Ghislaine Maxwell may have opened up to the DOJ. South Park episode on Trump may be a real 'mess' for him. The sheriff says he's never seen a worse case of child sex abuse. We knew Letterman would pipe up about Colbert eventually. Report an error