TOKYO , Japan ( CNN ) -- Authorities have arrested a U.S. sailor on suspicion of robbery and murder in the death of a Japanese taxi driver . The U.S. military handed him over Thursday at Yokosuka Naval Base , south of Tokyo . A Yokosuka police spokesman identified the sailor as Olatunbosun Ogbogu , a 22-year-old Nigerian national . Taxi driver Masaaki Takahashi , 61 , was found dead March 19 of stab wounds to the neck about a mile from the base in Yokosuka . The presence of U.S. in Japan has sparked controversy this year amid reports linking service members to crimes . In March , the U.S. military said it plans to court martial four Marines accused of raping a 19-year-old woman in Hiroshima last year . Authorities are also investigating allegations that a member of the U.S. military raped a Philippine woman on the island of Okinawa . And a U.S. Marine was detained in the rape of a 14-year-old girl until the girl dropped the allegations . As Ogbogu was arrested , the U.S. ambassador to Japan , Thomas Schieffer , met with Japan 's foreign minister . `` We 're dealing with human beings that do criminal acts from time to time , '' Schieffer told reporters afterward . `` And I think justice is going to be done in this matter because we 've been able to work so closely together . '' Watch the U.S. ambassador to Japan discuss the case » . The U.S. military presence in Japan has at times bred resentment among locals , who have long complained about crime , noise and accidents . Anti-American sentiments boiled over in 1995 after three American servicemen kidnapped and gang-raped a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl . Two years ago , a U.S. civilian military employee was jailed for nine years for raping two women . E-mail to a friend .
Japanese police arrest U.S. sailor for allegedly killing a Japanese taxi driver . The incident occurred in the city of Sasebo on Japan's southern Kyushu island last week. In 2006 , U.S. civilian military staffer jailed for nine years for raping two women .