A U.S. Navy sailor has been found dead with a head injury at a Japanese train station, local police said Monday.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Samuel Lewis Stiles was discovered surrounded by seven or eight alcoholic drink cans on the platform in Haiki Station in Nagasaki Prefecture at 5 a.m. Sunday, Haiki police said.
The death, which police say they are investigating as either an accident or a crime, comes at a delicate time for the U.S. military in Japan after two U.S. sailors were arrested earlier this month on accusations they raped a local woman.
That case provoked an angry reaction from Japanese officials, and the U.S. military responded by imposing a curfew on its troops in Japan. The curfew restricted military personnel to bases, personal homes or hotels between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.
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I say, let's just pull out of J apan once and for all!
EVERYONE THAT IS TALKING B.S. ON HERE IS DISRESPECTFUL! THIS NAME WAS MY LITTLE BROTHER! HE SERVED OUR COUNTRY FOR 6 YEARS SO YOU CAN HAVE THE FREEDOMS YOU HAVE TODAY, AND FOR YOU TO TALK BADLY ABOUT HIM SAYS ALOT ABOUT YOU. MY BROTHER WAS ALL I HAD LEFT FROM MY MOM WHO DIED OF BREAST CANCER WHEN WE WERE TODDLERS!
SHUT YOUR MOUTHS AND GROW UP! I DONT CARE HOW A PERSON DIES YOU DONT TALK ABOUT THEM LIKE THIS.
MY BROTHER WAS A GOOD MAN, A GREAT FATHER, HE WASNT STUPID, HE WAS VERY SMART AND DID SO MUCH IN HIS 25 YEARS OF LIFE.
SSGT STILES USAF!
THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE POLITE THANK YOU. IM LOST AND DONT KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO RIGHT NOW. ALL THE NEGITATIVE COMMENTS ARE SICK.
I agree, the people who are making negative comments are letting their true inner person show and its very sick!!!
I'am sorry for your lost my heart goes out to you and your family an the wicked mean people that are saying hurting words in the time of people grieving will be punished in the eyes of God. Because that is wrong but if it was one of their family members they would be upset too. but i will pray for them and keep your faith an god will take care of the rest.
Im so sorry about your Loss, I heard about this just last night, Sam was such a wonderful person, I havent talked to him in years but I remember hanging out with you and him in High School, Such good memories all around, my prayers are with you!!!
Sorry for your lost S Stiles, and god bless your husbands brother for his service and god bless your family.
Everyone who has something negative to say can keep their comments to themsleves. This was my husbands brother and he is taking it hard right now considering their mom passed away when they were little and now his only brother is gone!! Have some respect!! You don't know anything about him so don't talk crap!
It amazes me how everyone is making fun of this SAILOR's death!!!
Me too, Kevin. This has to stop, really it does! This ain't no laughinging matter, no way!
This incident tells me that's it's high time we got our troops out of that country! Besides, how does one protect a country while it faces no outside threats to begin with? It's all politics as the right-wing thugs in Washington seek to become dominant there as everywhere else! This is ridiculous!
Truelly painful. libido + Alcohol a nightmarish combination for ill desciplined young men. The army should do some screening when posting its soldiers to culturally sensitive places
Soldier? He was Navy, not Army
man that usa soldier got asss rapped in down town tokyo show a bottle up his asss
That wasn't very nice saeed, but I do agree that we no longer need to have troops in J apan. Let the J apanese defend themselves but then again, nobody poses any thread whatsoever to that country today!