US sailor arrested for suspected rape

A US serviceman stationed in Okinawa Island was arrested on suspicion of raping a woman, Japanese police said on Monday.

Okinawa police arrested Justin Castellanos, 24, a US Navy seaman on Sunday, likely adding to the complications facing a controversial plan to relocate a US air base on the island.

The government in Tokyo and authorities in Okinawa have long been at loggerheads over the relocation of the US Marines' Futenma air base, which is in an urban area of the southern island.