Army to court martial soldier for rape in Japan

TOKYO — The U.S. military will court martial an American soldier accused of raping a Filipino woman in southern Japan, the Army said Wednesday, after Japanese authorities dropped charges against him. Army specialist Ronald Hopstock, 25, who allegedly assaulted the woman in an Okinawa hotel room in February, will be the latest in a series of U.S. military personnel to be tried for attacks on women in Japan this year.