U.S. Military Base

Kanagawa Prefectural Police arrested 45-year-old Yoshitaka Mizuno, an employee of a major Japanese trading company, on suspicion of violating the Special Criminal Act under the Japan-U.S. status-of-forces agreement. Mizuno, who had returned from work in Iraq earlier that day, is accused of entering the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base without authorization on October 23 last year using a fake ID card. The case came to light after he was cited for a parking violation near his home in Tokyo's Minato Ward.