Okinawa governor comments on Hailston's e-mail

Okinawa governor comments on Hailston's e-mail

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine responds to questions from reporters in Naha on Feb. 6 after Lt. Gen. Earl Hailston, chief of U.S. forces in Okinawa Prefecture, called Okinawa prefectural officials, including Inamine, ''nuts and wimps'' in an e-mail. ''Although it is a personal letter of the lieutenant general, I feel intense discomfort,'' Inamine said of the e-mail Hailston sent to 13 U.S. officers in Okinawa on Jan. 23 concerning indecent acts by a Marine in the town of Kin in northern Okinawa on Jan. 9.

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