A member of the US Air Force in Japan has been jailed for 32 months after being found guilty of raping a woman in Okinawa. The Naha District Court ruled that Staff Sergeant Timothy Woodland, 25, raped the 24-year-old Japanese woman in a car park at a shopping complex near the Kadena air base. Woodland had admitted having sex with the woman, but said it had been consensual. The case aroused controversy because the US military took four days to hand Woodland over to the Japanese police, arguing that it needed guarantees he would be given fair treatment. There are 50,000 US troops based in Japan, half of those in Okinawa.

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