If guilty, let the Japs execute him. They don’t botch executions in Japan.
I disagree, he is one of ours and if he is a murderer it is our responsibility to hang him. It will ensure he gets a fair trial and shows the Japanese we are honorable partners.
The last time I was assigned to Okinawa, when I arrived in the Spring of 1992, all of the bases were on lock-down because a US Marine murdered an Okinawan in Kin, the village outside of Camp Hansen.
I would later learn from his boss (the Wire Chief at 9th Communications Battalion), that the Marine was at a bar and was hit upon by a gay Japanese man, and the Marine proceeded to bash his head in with a flower pot.