Koizumi wants 'appropriate' U.S. response over rape

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks to the media hours after returning from a tour of the United States, Britain and France on July 5. The premier expressed hope that Washington will soon make an ''appropriate'' decision on Japan's request to hand over a U.S. airman suspected of raping an Okinawa woman.

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