Coral reefs are seen along the coast near the U.S. Marine base Camp Schwab Reilly Smith Golden Knights Jersey , off the tiny hamlet of Henoko in Nago, on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, in this file aerial photo taken by Kyodo October 29, 2015 file photo. Mandatory credit REUTERSKyodo TOKYO - An American man working at a U.S. military base in Japan was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of dumping the body of a 20-year-old Japanese woman Brendan Leipsic Golden Knights Jersey , police said, a case likely to stir anti-U.S. sentiment ahead of a visit by President Barack Obama.
The 32-year-old civilian working at the base on the island of Okinawa admitted to abandoning the corpse but did not make any comments about whether he had killed the woman, an Okinawa police spokesman said.
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida summoned Caroline Kennedy, U.S. ambassador to Japan Colin Miller Golden Knights Jersey , to lodge a protest.
"I expressed a strong regret to Ambassador Kennedy and lodged a stern protest. I told her an incident like this is inexcusable and that I feel strong indignation," Kishida told reporters.
Kennedy told Kishida the United States would redouble its efforts to prevent similar incidents, the foreign minister said.
Spokesman Peter Cook said the Pentagon would provide "complete cooperation" in the investigation, while State Department spokesman John Kirby expressed condolences.
"This is a terrible tragedy and it's obviously an outrage," Kirby told a daily news briefing. "We're treating this situation with the utmost seriousness."
Obama, who is to attend a Group of Seven summit in Japan next week Authentic Alex Tuch Jersey , will become the first U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, a city destroyed by a U.S. atomic bomb 71 years ago.
Okinawa, the site of a bloody World War Two land battle, hosts the bulk of U.S. military forces based in Japan since the war Authentic Nate Schmidt Jersey , and many residents resent what they see as an unfair burden