Investigative sources said that the woman checked in with a man at the hotel around 2:10 a.m. that day but she did not leave by checkout time. At around 4:15 a.m. a hotel employee entered the room and found her body.

When was checkout time? 2 hours and 5 minutes seems like a really short stay.

It is not the first time that things like that happens in Okinawa. Previously, a US soldier was sentenced only five years for kidnapping and raping an underage girl. The victim was 15 years old at the time of the assault.

The Naha District Court on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old U.S. Air Force serviceman to five years in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 16 in Okinawa Prefecture late last year.

Brennon Washington was stationed at Kadena Air Base when he abducted the minor on Dec. 24, 2023.

Prosecutors said Washington approached the girl as she sat on a park bench in central Okinawa, initiating a conversation using a translation app and asking her for her age. The girl reportedly responded switching between Japanese and English, using gestures to signal her age, which was captured on security footage.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/13/japan/crime-legal/us-military-okinawa-ruling/

Washington is serving a five-year prison sentence after the court convicted him in December 2024 of kidnapping and sexually assaulting the then-15-year-old.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2026-06-03/okinawa-sexual-assault-civil-damages-21860103.html

The specific hotel checkout time was not disclosed in public reports