alliance.

Local condemnation

Mr Fukuda said his government would do what it could to try to prevent a repeat of such incidents in the future.

Sunday's alleged assault has also brought condemnation from Okinawa's governor and other local politicians.

The US state department said it was taking the allegations very seriously and pledged to work closely with the Japanese.

About 50,000 US troops are stationed in Japan, most of them on Okinawa.

Last year, 46 US military personnel were arrested in Okinawa in connection with criminal cases.

That figure, though, represented a 50% drop compared to the number of arrests made on the island five years ago.The firm doing PR for Saturday night's Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Robert Guerrero fight emailed us the quotes from yesterday's pre-fight press conference in Vegas. That helpful little guide said the fighters' fathers had "nearly come to blows," but it left out all the fun stuff.

Manufacturing conflict has been a part of boxing's hype machine for as long as we've had boxing. But as you can see in the video above, when Guerrero's father and trainer, Ruben, flipped his shit and repeatedly ranted about Mayweather being a "woman beater," it killed everyone's buzz.

Some background: Mayweather served two months in prison last year after pleading guilty to misdemeanor domestic battery charges stemming from a 2010 assault on his ex-girlfriend, Jodie Harris. He copped the plea only to avoid a trial during