Family of slain Yokosuka woman blames sailor, U.S. Navy, Japan

Family of slain Yokosuka woman blames sailor, U.S. Navy, Japan
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{EXCERPT}, by Hana Kusumoto and Allison Batdorff, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, December 22, 2006

YOKOHAMA, Japan ? A $1.7 million civil suit proceeding started
Wednesday with family members and a bevy of attorneys saying a sailor,
the government of Japan and the U.S. Navy were to blame for the Jan. 3
fatal beating of a Yokosuka woman by a USS Kitty Hawk sailor.

Yoshie Sato?s two sons and her fiance, Masanori Yamazaki, are suing
the Japanese government and William Oliver Reese, the 22-year-old Navy
airman convicted of the crime, for 200 million yen in compensatory
damages.

The family is backed by 115 attorneys from Japan and Okinawa,
including those from military opposition groups. They say the
high-dollar suit is justified for three reasons ? the ?brutality? of
the crime, the Navy?s culpability in controlling alcohol-related
incidents and the Japane......

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