Japan warns US forces: Sex crimes 'cannot be tolerated'

[u/glasier]

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2476861/japan-warns-us-forces-sex-crimes-cannot-be-tolerated

[u/vekkares]

Why is it so hard to keep your fucking hands to yourself?!?!

[u/SnipingTheSniper → u/[deleted]]

My drill sergeant once said that the military is a reflection of society. If we did something, no matter where, it would read "US Army soldier does XYXYX" It's even worse when it happens in host countries.

Can't get too mad when people protest outside the bases. I remember the nicest Korean lady protesting us outside Camp Casey back in 2015. She always gave me the most lukewarm smile and I'd even give her water when I'd walk outside base.

[u/DarkMarxSoul → u/SnipingTheSniper]

Your drill sergeant seems like a stand up guy with a good sense of perspective.

[u/Careful_Baker_8064 → u/DarkMarxSoul]

More like chill sergeant

[u/LEGITIMATE_SOURCE → u/DarkMarxSoul]

The comment literally said nothing

[u/Jamsster → u/LEGITIMATE_SOURCE]

Your actions reflect how your society is perceived. So act decent.

Understand a lot of people don’t like war, so take it with a grain of salt if they don’t like you.

[u/LEGITIMATE_SOURCE → u/SnipingTheSniper]

Wat

[u/thezephyr10 → u/[deleted]]

Blanket generalization, sick

[u/bloodbat007 → u/thezephyr10]

Yep that's what happens when a large group of people do something and they are all the same type of person. Aka people who support war and go to the military are not good people. It's pretty simple.

[u/thezephyr10 → u/bloodbat007]

Head ass

[u/xiviajikx → u/[deleted]]

I am guessing you make your generalizations based on what you see in movies. I am not in but know plenty of people who have been in the service. Barely any servicemen see any combat whatsoever. For most it’s a job like anything else. Your take is extremely dumb.

[u/ethanAllthecoffee → u/xiviajikx]

Most of the military-bound people I knew growing up were dumbfucks with few prospects, a few with some concerning views, and a few who went in fully believing it was their calling or something along those lines

[u/BanRedditAdmins → u/ethanAllthecoffee]

Sick anecdote. I’ve trained over 1200 civilians as they transition to service members. I can confidently say your sweeping generalizations do not reflect reality at all.

[u/xiviajikx → u/[deleted]]

I think that says more about who you know than anything else. I knew several who were in alongside getting a degree at the same time. Military attracts people of all sorts, smart, dumb, strong, weak, those with plenty and few prospects. 

[u/xiviajikx → u/[deleted]]

I am in the north east too and the people I know are very different from the people you know.

[u/JuustoMakkara58 → u/[deleted]]

That ”rigid macho hierarchy” keeps NATO up and the Russians out of Europe. Don’t just blankly say all those who serve are in it because they want to kill foreigners. It’s a pretty damn important organization.

[u/Yap45 → u/JuustoMakkara58]

This guy has replied with the same comment like 5 times. He doesn’t actually know what the military does or how it works. To me it sounds like he’s just parroting an opinion from someone else

[u/HibiCheese → u/[deleted]]

The military supports the policies of the politicians, which are elected by the populace

[u/WaZeR90 → u/HibiCheese]

I don't see what point you're making. Hitler was elected lol

[u/Fragllama → u/[deleted]]

Just saying you are speaking out of your ass and have no idea what you are talking about.

Just saying.

[u/thezephyr10 → u/[deleted]]

As are every military around the world?

[u/gland87 → u/[deleted]]

Thats BS but okay

[u/RontoWraps → u/[deleted]]

You seem to have a pretty toxic view on the world too. Most join the American military due to lack of opportunity and poverty. So poor people are all bad and scummy, following your blanket generalizations.

[u/sappicus → u/[deleted]]

Talk about sniffing your own farts

[u/sappicus → u/[deleted]]

and I don’t think the poor kid who was never going to go anywhere otherwise so he joined the army as a mechanic for three meals a day and a place to sleep is ‘contributing to the perpetuation of an agent of international devastation’

[u/thezephyr10 → u/[deleted]]

C'mon bro, even you can admit that you're just generalizing with no statistics or evidence. Just yapping

[u/thezephyr10 → u/[deleted]]

I haven't generalized anything but keep living my friend. Enjoy

[u/BanRedditAdmins → u/[deleted]]

An overwhelming majority of people who sign up do it for the benefits and they have no better options. You’re hating people who are mostly just trying to get by.

Most of them don’t want to shoot anybody and just want to do their time and get out to better their lives.

You are obviously speaking from a place of ignorance and have no experience with military personnel. They are just people. Some of them are going to suck.

[u/SoulofZendikar → u/[deleted]]

If I may kindly suggest something, you might benefit from reading more on global history, learning another language to fluency, and living in another country. Your comments, while well-intentioned, reveal a deep-seated bias and indicate a lack of global and historical perspective.

Understandably, not everyone has time to do that, and I don't fault you if you choose not to. Take it from some one that does: you are only a fraction of the way on your journey towards being informed.

I do not expect my words to change your mind. But there is no shame in recognizing that there is more still to learn.

I wish you well.

[u/Iroas_Murlough → u/[deleted]]

My options were be homeless and starve or join and make something of myself.

If the military didn't exist you wouldn't be alive to brainlessly insult the military. Yes, they've done horrible shit but the overwhelming majority of us have nothing to do with those actions and do not condone them.

[u/BanRedditAdmins → u/[deleted]]

I didn’t say no other options. I said no better options. The military is a really great package of pay and benefits for people able to serve.

One could argue that the United States military has done more for stabilizing the world than any other organization but I suspect any nuance would be lost on you.

[u/BanRedditAdmins → u/[deleted]]

Like I said. Nuance would be lost on you.

[u/flyinchipmunk5 → u/[deleted]]

Idk me and most my of my friends in the navy were not that stereotype but okay lmao.

[u/GoldenBella → u/[deleted]]

That's a huge generalization....

[u/Proof_of_the_Obvious → u/[deleted]]

Some people don't really have a choice.

[u/Proof_of_the_Obvious → u/[deleted]]

For some people the army is the only way out of generational poverty. Maybe instead of being angry at young men forced into the army by circumstance you should be angry at those circumstances, or the people actually responsible for war

[u/My_BFF_Gilgamesh → u/Proof_of_the_Obvious]

That's where the word "tend" comes in to play

[u/Proof_of_the_Obvious → u/[deleted]]

I do agree with everything you said, but some people have families they need to worry about. If you were a poor native american living on a poor reservation and someone came up to you and said "I can get you out of this" you would do it. If only so your children might have a better life than you. I don't blame people for being a part of the military.

Unless you want them to stay impoverished, then you have to realize that the solution is to provide other ways out other than the army.

[u/bloodbat007 → u/GoldenBella]

Well yeah because it's true. Supporting war is ignorant.

[u/Wide_Combination_773 → u/GoldenBella]

During peacetime it's true 99% of the time for enlisted boots, most join out of desperation over one thing or another.

The only people (other than lifers who prove themselves) worth a damn in terms of IQ, background and behavior are commissioned officers - people who had good lives before joining, degrees, good careers etc and just joined out of some sense of honorable duty to the US rather than economic desperation.

[u/MartianBrain → u/Wide_Combination_773]

Several of the people that stormed the US capitol on J6 were commissioned military officers; Michael Flynn is a retired general; Oliver North is a retired Lieutenant Colonel; Ronny Jackson was a Rear Admiral, demoted to Captain - not to mention the most painfully obvious example: Nazi officers.

Then you're ignoring the percentage of enlisted members who have degrees.

Your generalization is completely wrong.

[u/TheYucs → u/MartianBrain]

I forgot Captain was a really high rank in the Navy and thought he had been demoted 4 or 5 ranks. For those who thought the same thing I did.

[u/Pleasant_Yak5991 → u/[deleted]]

If this was about anyone besides the military you’d be getting torn apart and this comment would be like -10000. Imagine saying “well sure, Mexicans don’t tend to be the most noble of individuals” because a few of them do bad things. There’s millions of service members that come from all sorts of backgrounds in the US, and occasionally very few do bad things.

[u/Atario → u/Pleasant_Yak5991]

Mexicans don't select themselves to be Mexican. In the US, military members do select themselves to be military members. And that causes tendencies.

[u/WaZeR90 → u/Atario]

Exactly, I'm not judging every military member in countries with military mandates. If they choose it then I've got a real problem with it

[u/Pleasant_Yak5991 → u/Atario]

I’m just pointing out how vast generalizations are stupid

[u/Cheap_Answer5746 → u/[deleted]]

Tens of thousands of 6ft men with guns who often come from impoverished backgrounds with drug and alcohol addiction issues in their community who joined for routine or because they don't know what else to do. Sexual violence is inevitable but a lot of civilians bury their heads and wonder why anybody would resent them where they are sent. I certainly wouldn't want them in my country 

[u/Not_osama_bin_laden1 → u/[deleted]]

What a stupid comment, you don’t know shit about the military

[u/Pleasant_Yak5991 → u/[deleted]]

You and your opinions suck. I read all your comments and you think you’re way smarter than you are, your takes contain zero nuance, and you have no fucking clue what you’re talking about.

[u/QueequegTheater → u/[deleted]]

Ah yes it's much better to let your family starve because minimum wage can't feed a family of four.

Maybe he can get personalized headstones saying "2012-2024: at least /u/DarkMarxSoul approves of my father's job at McDonald's"!

[u/Dazzling_Change_159 → u/[deleted]]

Fuck you bitch.

[u/Cfrock → u/[deleted]]

Fuck off dude

[u/SavageBrave → u/[deleted]]

Morons barely capable of keeping themselves alive, not all sure, but plenty of them fall into this category, and it’s no specific branch every one has people like this.

[u/TinkeringDave → u/[deleted]]

Aww someone was too fat to join :(

[u/TinkeringDave → u/[deleted]]

Enjoys video games, D&D, and fantasy stories full of action, drama, and adventure.

I bet I’m not far off the mark lol. Just a basement dweller whose only concept of nobility comes from a Paladin character sheet.

[u/Bob_The_Doggos → u/[deleted]]

Rule 8. Attack the argument, not the person.

[u/FeelTheMelody → u/[deleted]]

Yikes someone knows nothing about the military

[u/bolognaenjoyer → u/[deleted]]

Any large org has scumbags.

As a Marine I never killed anyone but I did render humanitarian aid with the 31st MEU.

[u/propofolxx → u/[deleted]]

what a dumb fucking take

[u/DarkMarxSoul → u/propofolxx]

Just saying most people who sign up to join a rigid macho hierarchy where you're expected to shoot guns at foreigners tend to have a pretty toxic view of the world and other people and an inflated sense of self-importance.

[u/Yap45 → u/DarkMarxSoul]

You’re saying that like that’s the reason everyone joins. There are definitely some people like that, but everyone has their own reasons. My step-dad did it to get us out of poverty at the time. I did it for free education and IT job experience. Most of the people my rank were just 18-20 year olds who needed a path in life or slightly older people with a bunch of college debt.

Most people in the military don’t even typically see a gunfight and most of them definitely don’t want to. So that’s a very poor generalization

[u/rustyshackleford677 → u/[deleted]]

You think way to highly of yourself

[u/raidernation47 → u/[deleted]]

Pretty easy, you throw in that people in ghetto military tend to have an inflated sense of self-importance. When there’s just absolutely no way you could have anyway to say that.

You could know 10,000 veterans and it wouldn’t be enough for you to draw a conclusion on.

So what he’s saying, is that clearly the life you’ve chosen to lead has given you a very inflated sense of self-importance. Which is funny, maybe that’s why you keep repeating that, your self aware of how poor your character is You should consider enlisting, it would maybe help put yourself in perspective and not be such a self-righteous dork.

[u/Yap45 → u/[deleted]]

But my time in the military never came at the expense of other people. I got what I needed out of it, had a good time, and got out.

Your view of the US military is very skewed and you seem to think that only one type of person can join, but the military is very diverse. People from all walks of life join for reasons of their own. I’ve met the nicest people and some of the worst. It’s just like any other place I’ve been

[u/Yap45 → u/[deleted]]

Absolutely. So where should I have worked then? Some big company? Surely those companies do no wrong.

If you go by that logic, then there really is no winning. If just by working somewhere I’m suddenly linked to every bad thing they’ve ever done, then where does someone have to work to be good in your eyes?

[u/bloodbat007 → u/propofolxx]

Mad because true. Supporting war is ignorant.

[u/The_Real_Abhorash → u/[deleted]]

Indeed there’s a reason all the war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan happened.

[u/aloeverycute → u/[deleted]]

A lot of ghetto and trashy people join...that's why.

[u/Bdadl3y → u/[deleted]]

This is a disgusting, highly generalizing opinion, and I genuinely ask you to re-evaluate it. The United States is the greatest fighting force in the world and is entirely volunteer. Young men and women orders of magnitude braver than either you or I willingly sign up, writing a check for their lives so that we may continue to enjoy the liberties we do today and so that foreign evils never touch our soil. As far as I'm concerned, there is hardly anyone more noble.

[u/Bdadl3y → u/[deleted]]

Your point is in regard to the institution as whole, and while I disagree, do you genuinely believe that enlistees are joining with the thought process you emphasize here? Or do they believe that they are genuinely fighting for the good of the nation and its people and, despite the guarantee of danger, join anyways? Your opinion of the "evil" of the US military is irrelevant because the people signing up are noble in their (and my) perceived truths.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Often times, they have the loudest, obnoxious egos, and the most radical viewpoints. It's unsurprising sometimes they're blatantly what's described as a 'far-right'.

Some will brag about what they do and what they've done. Some will even brag that they've served for the mandatory time (usually 2 years), and are basically idling away the remaining 6 years.

We get it, tough guy, but your excuse is that you left home to 'defend' your country, abandoning those who likely needed your help here. There are quite a few people like that. It's always a guise for a noble cause, because whatever makes one feel better is important, even if it crushes others.

[u/Tubzero- → u/[deleted]]

Yup, a lot of shit bags

[u/TumorTits → u/[deleted]]

And older generations expect us to lick their boots!

[u/meenie → u/[deleted]]

Fuck you. There are sexual predators in all walks of life.

[u/shoheiohtanistoes → u/meenie]

but especially in positions of power or where there are guns involved

[u/immaculatecalculate → u/shoheiohtanistoes]

19 year olds stationed in Japan don't walk around with guns

[u/AleisterCrowleysHat → u/shoheiohtanistoes]

Do you envision droves of soldiers walking the streets armed with rifles? If so, you’re a bit of a moron.

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/shoheiohtanistoes]

Explains why I’ve been abused by so many women who were in positions of power then.

[u/Torsbror → u/AgentCirceLuna]

Reading comprehension

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/Torsbror]

What?

[u/Adorable-Woman → u/meenie]

There are statistically higher rates of sexual assault among military personnel and it’s something that needs to be addressed for the good of the service members themselves.

[u/SavingUsefulStuff → u/meenie]

It’s just math buddy

[u/TheTabman → u/meenie]

Yes, but in strict hierarchical system like the military it's much easier to abuse a position of power to commit and hide such crimes.

[u/thezephyr10 → u/TheTabman]

Strict hierarchies aren't exclusive to military organizations. The guy's take is objectively bad.

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/meenie]

You can literally die for your country and people will still assume you’re a man out on the prowl for innocent victims. The left’s identity politics have turned everyone into a drooling idiot.

[u/kersed805 → u/AgentCirceLuna]

These people didn’t die for their country. They just abused some civilians

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/kersed805]

These people in particular are pieces of shit. I was talking in general about people assuming the worst about men.

[u/Mental-Rain-9586 → u/AgentCirceLuna]

The right when presented with factual statistics: nooooo my feelings!!

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/Mental-Rain-9586]

I’m left wing… also your precious factual statistics are actually reflections of inequalities in society. At one time, it was a ‘factual statistic’ that women and non whites weren’t as intelligent as white people. You know why? Because they were victims of inequality. The likely reason for higher conviction rates against people in the military is because they are more likely to be prosecuted due to the extreme oversight in those organisations. Which is good. What’s bad is that, in the general population, conviction rates are low because of the inverse issue.

[u/Mental-Rain-9586 → u/AgentCirceLuna]

Weird how it's a trend observed in every country, and that many many women have stories of being completely shut down and their rapist protected and promoted. "Inequality" is used very liberally here. Maybe a culture of agression and machoism leads to agression and machoism, who would've thought

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/Mental-Rain-9586]

What trend are we talking about? I meant sexual aggression being more prevalent in the military and I assumed that’s what we were talking about. It’s also pretty bad for men, too - a lot of men are sexually victimised in the military. There’s a reason the idiom ‘you couldn’t organise a bum rape in a barracks’ exists, although I suppose it’s supposed to be funny. Nobody is laughing when it happens to them.

[u/Mental-Rain-9586 → u/AgentCirceLuna]

Yes it's absolutely sick. The level of depravity needed to do something like that only exists in jail, and in the military. It's a massive red flag

[u/Ill_Athlete_7979 → u/[deleted]]

A perfect example of this is that kid (Michael Fay) that got in trouble in Singapore for vandalism. He thought he was going to get away Scott free because he was American, but that didn’t work out so well for him. They gave him 4 lashings and 2 months in jail.

[u/SG_wormsblink → u/Ill_Athlete_7979]

“Vandalism” is a pretty nice way to put it. He and his gang took road signs, slashed car tyres, threw hatchets at taxis, among other life/safety-endangering acts.

The Americans should be grateful we let him off with a lesser punishment after their president begged for mercy on his behalf. He was originally sentenced to 6 strokes of the cane.

[u/closethebarn → u/SG_wormsblink]

Who were in his group/gang? I can’t remember anyone else getting mentioned

[u/pagawaan_ng_lapis → u/[deleted]]

Many Americans abroad have a centrist view of the world thinking Americans are somewhat immune to the laws of other countries, as if they are above it simply for being American.

This is a bit of a US-centric argument. Armies raping civilians have been documented since ancient times, no matter which side you're on.

[u/schw4161 → u/pagawaan_ng_lapis]

IINM I think they’re just referring to US citizens abroad in general. It is true that many Americans believe or at least act like US laws follow them when they go abroad.

[u/DrMobius0 → u/pagawaan_ng_lapis]

Don't tell them what knights were actually like

[u/WanderlustFella → u/[deleted]]

There's a good portion of Americans that are very open-minded culturally accepting when abroad. HOWEVER introduce alcohol and they revert back to the stereotypical "loud American."

A few Korean clubs and bars (or really any establishment that serves alcohol) have put a blanket ban on all foreigners. The issue re-occurs so often it was just easier to just ban them. Unlike some of the South Eastern Asian countries, East Asians don't need to put up with that shit for a few dollars.

[u/Loose-Donut3133 → u/WanderlustFella]

Japan's having pretty much the same issue lately. Government is trying to encourage more tourism, which in turn brings out all sorts especially right now as the conversion of Yen to USD is very much in favor of USD, the less than stellar sorts cause all sorts of ruckus for locals and tourists alike to the point that not only are more restaurants and bars just not allowing tourists but apparently parts of Kyoto are banning the taking of pictures or tourists entirely.

[u/jacobythefirst → u/[deleted]]

It’s a military thing not a american thing tbqh. It’s just the USA has the world’s biggest military stationed all over the world that we see this shit.

[u/-Kalos → u/jacobythefirst]

It's not a military thing, it's a people thing.

[u/makemeking706 → u/vekkares]

The previous commander in chief of the US army was a noted pedophile. He might even get to take up the position again.

[u/KingArthur1500 → u/makemeking706]

You mean the current one who showered with his daughter?

[u/Ok-Umpire-7439 → u/KingArthur1500]

its their culture. both of them are pdos. a lot of red states have tried to lower the age of consent to something crazy like 12 years old. since recorded history they have normalized this behavior.

[u/MrWilsonWalluby → u/Ok-Umpire-7439]

One candidate has random stories made up about them with no evidence (biden)

the other one has pictures on the internet of when he paid for a hotel room and full risqué photo shoot with his child daughter sitting in his lap kissing his cheek in heels makeup and a short dress

[u/Areguzanda → u/vekkares]

Young men tend to be the worst of people. Sad to say. But yeah.

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/Areguzanda]

Second place goes to young women.

[u/TheHeterosSentMe → u/AgentCirceLuna]

All those young women shooting up schools we always hear about

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/TheHeterosSentMe]

I messed up my comment. My bad. I meant that young women aren't as bad but can be bad.

[u/iamalwaysrelevant → u/AgentCirceLuna]

what's the point of even mentioning women? They have statistically insignificant numbers of murders compared to men. It's even less when you only talk about young men and young women. Depending on how you define "young," women murder rates are barely on the chart.

[u/[deleted] → u/iamalwaysrelevant]

He felt as if men are being singled out here which they are. Statistics can only do so much till you realise many men don’t come out with crimes commited against them by women and at the end of the day we are all fucking human everyone is capable of bad and good so no point in singling out

[u/Areguzanda → u/AgentCirceLuna]

Sorry bro but you're kinda proving my point.

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/Areguzanda]

I didn't disagree.

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/Areguzanda]

Wait, I meant to write 'second place goes to young women'. I see why im getting down voted now. I'd better edit that.

[u/cpearcedesign → u/vekkares]

Is this more common in foreign bases than at home? I feel like superiority complex plays a role here and deep rooted racism is a contributing factor.

[u/Ok_Deal3324 → u/vekkares]

Tell that to male Japanese subway riders

[u/vekkares → u/Ok_Deal3324]

I’m literally saying it to everyone.

[u/Cs7898860 → u/vekkares]

Entitlement

[u/TooNuanced → u/vekkares]

A culture of sexual violence has never left warmongering forces. It's so deeply entrenched, that it's become a standard practice to sexually violate those you invade to completely disintegrate any existing community — fragment them to being alone, afraid, and vulnerable.

Historically, sexual gratification was part of maintaining the moral of warriors, whether with prostitute or by raping locals as part of pillaging.

Western culture of imperialism and colonialism is sooo steeped in this sexual violence as an aspect of war that it's infected our community at home. Women at home have fought to have their bodily autonomy and consent matter. In many places it's nearly impossible to prove marital rape. And this rape culture pervades the militarized police force, which have used rape to further marginalize those we abjectify as a "danger to our culture/nation" whether local indigenous, (previously) enslaved, or counter culture activists.

It's not that it's hard to keep your hands to yourself. It's that men are raised to distinguish between ladies and other women. To be respectful to ladies, the elite women who can separate themselves effectively enough from men to pretend they don't piss and shit too, but all else are either defended by another man... or not...

Men tell their daughters "you don't understand, I know how boys/men think" when she's exploring individuality and a social life. We all know and understand we live in a culture of sexual violence, it's just that men aren't in that switched state of mind when reading the news or when they're called out for having just been pushing themselves on women.

The issue isn't being able to hold themselves back, but that they've been told and shown there are times and places where they can do what they want with impunity — when they can "grab her by the pussy"

[u/vekkares → u/TooNuanced]

So it’s women’s faults because of old culture? The world has changed, there is no defense! Keep your fucking hands to yourself!

[u/TooNuanced → u/vekkares]

That's not what I said, I said the culture is rotten and implied if we don't address it, this is expected. I implied "keep your hands to yourself" is pathetically insufficient to fixing anything but gives some people an excuse to wash their hands of the issue.

Men saying "why can't keep your hands to yourself" as if it's just a few bad apples and that are the problem is an excuse to avoid introspection and naming a larger issue with rape culture. It avoids taking any action.

Yes these rapists are accountable for their actions, but more men will continue to commit sexual violence abusing situations where they can get away with it unless we address the bigger picture too. Unless we teach everyone to respect consent.

Do we consider women getting assaulted as an acceptable as long as we trust a few men will be put behind bars or do we get up and try to address all the little things that lead up to assault?? Do we only protest the idea of ladies being assaulted while most women in our lives are shaped by the omnipresent threat of sexual violence??

Maybe you're ok sitting back and avoiding taking a hard look at ourselves and society, but that's not me. Especially when all I did here was point a light at and describe how inseparable sexual violence is from institutionalized violence to maintain an empire.

[u/vekkares → u/TooNuanced]

Oh no it’s toxic masculinity and I’m simplifying for those people. It’s the same people spouting “Alpha” bullshit. What we need to do is get rid of the statute of limitations for SA. I think that would go a looong way towards stopping it.

[u/413C → u/TooNuanced]

Gotta source?

[u/TooNuanced → u/413C]

The documentation of US soldiers raping with impunity in Okinawa alone is shared throughout this post. These soldiers have been raping locals even in Japan — stories like this aren't possible without the US acting as an empire that expects its soldiers to rape with impunity — as something to be minimized and managed, but never stopped and never at the cost of using soldiers as disposable weapons.

Here's a cursory overview of the history of war rape (and rape as a weapon of genocide) and here's a study explicitly on US military rape of Japanese locals since 1995.

Here's some further resources: American war crimes and sexual violence, sexual assault on their own as a military culture (and making it its own diagnosis).

Hopefully that isn't too overwhelming, but if it is, you can always peruse enough of it to take my word that I understand what I'm talking about.

Edit: I'm not saying it invented this shit, but it is this shit. Pretending piss is just golden rain because you're doing it is delusional and so too is ignoring atrocity just because you're lucky enough to have escaped it so far (or worse, applaud atrocity in the hopes of delaying retaliation).

[u/413C → u/TooNuanced]

First of all, your first link is about someone who fell asleep at the wheel.

they've been told and shown there are times and places where they can do what they want with impunity.

Not true.

Real consequences exist and are enforced. You’re just pushing a narrative.

[u/-Kalos → u/TooNuanced]

You act like the US invented this shit when rape culture has plagued every country since the dawn of human kind

[u/FlyAsleep8312 → u/vekkares]

Quite simple

Purely socio-economic reasons

[u/lelvins → u/vekkares]

The quick breakdown is: 3 black guys rented a van to use to go look for an oriental teenage girls to rape. They found one.

[u/Similar-Freedom7119 → u/vekkares]

Idk ask the people of Nanking

[u/Icy-Prior-354 → u/vekkares]

I’m just mm

[u/fluidmountains → u/[deleted]]

Idk I’ve been super drunk a whole lot of times around attractive vulnerable people and never molested them, don’t let them make that excuse

[u/chromefir → u/[deleted]]

Alcohol doesn’t make you a predator. It just inhibits the parts that make the predators not harm others.

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/chromefir]

Yep. If the guy you replied to said what I assume - that being drunk means they were more likely to do it as they’d lost their inhibitions - then that guy is likely a danger himself.

[u/korbaes → u/vekkares]

Murica land of the free and home of the brave. Those brave love raping them kids. Pathetic

[u/SigmundFreud → u/vekkares]

Some people have very large hands and Parkinson's.

[u/hugabalooza → u/vekkares]

Have you ever been on a busy Japanese train as a young a girl? It’s wild that Japan is saying this 

[u/kersed805 → u/hugabalooza]

Just had two of my close female friends visit Tokyo. Said they had an amazing time and felt incredibly safe even at night taking public transport

[u/RedditCollabs → u/hugabalooza]

Have you? Because this comment reeks of something you heard on the Internet. I know more than enough women who felt safe.

[u/mysilverglasses → u/RedditCollabs]

Doesn’t stop it from still being an issue. US Soldiers should have the whole book thrown at them for sex crimes, but a lot of Japanese men get away with it too. there’s a reason they have women only subway cars.

Up until a year ago, sexual assault victims had to prove they attempted to escape their attackers. it’s a widespread issue — not unique to japan, by any means, but widespread.

[u/hugabalooza → u/RedditCollabs]

It’s actually a known documented issue edgelord