Across Asia: Japan

US sailor indicted

Japanese prosecutors indicted a US sailor yesterday in the murder of a taxi driver, one of a series of criminal allegations that stirred anger against the heavy American military in the country.

Olatunbosun Ugbogu, a 22-year-old Nigerian citizen serving in the US Navy, was charged with stabbing the driver to death near a US naval base in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, on March 19, the court said in a short statement.