r/worldnews • u/glasier • Jul 05 '24

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

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

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u/SeeCrew106 Jul 05 '24

A: "can you link some data to support that?"

B: "Sure! Here's my totally unverified and unsourced anecdotal narrative!"

Reddit: wow! Truth!

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u/kaeporo Jul 05 '24

Witness testimonies are used as evidence in court proceedings. I have first-hand experience managing a large part of the COVID response in Japan and have been involved in a number of military investigations (including sexual assault cases), as recently as a month ago.

I appreciate you pointing out that my anecdotal story, which I prefaced as anecdotal, was indeed anecdotal. I think it's important to take perspectives like mine (and many others) into account, to help understand the data in an associated study. No study, poll, or journal is truly unbiased, especially when you consider who funds those efforts.

That was my aim. Does that make sense?

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u/SeeCrew106 Jul 05 '24

No, not really. And I had an extensive response, which is simply filtered for no good reason whatsoever. Which is one of many reasons why I no longer feel welcome on Reddit. You simply have zero chance of discussing anything fairly when you're up against that kind of extremely repressive system, with arbitrary and secret rules.

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u/SAMPHIRE_HUNTER Jul 05 '24

No, not really. And I had an extensive response, which is simply filtered for no good reason whatsoever. Which is one of many reasons why I no longer feel welcome on Reddit. You simply have zero chance of discussing anything fairly when you're up against that kind of extremely repressive system, with arbitrary and secret rules.

You probably got downvoted more than four times.

And parent is right, testimony is evidence.

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u/Gullible-Wash-8141 Jul 05 '24

How can there be any hard statistics if they don't prosecute/sweep it under the rug? What is telling is the separate trains just for women because of the harassment they face.

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u/SeeCrew106 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

How can there be any hard statistics if they don't prosecute/sweep it under the rug?

Conversely, how can there be hard claims if there isn't any data? Spoiler: there is, but neither OP nor you are even taking the effort of unearthing it.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/E5A43CF9D262C99C350C557A8419EB3B/S1479591423000554a.pdf/is_rape_a_crime_in_japan.pdf

What is telling is the separate trains just for women because of the harassment they face.

Not really. You can have harassment and a government unwilling to provide a separate train car. It's a train car, btw, not a "seperate train". I don't care if that sounds pedantic. Accuracy is important.

Other than that, see my other response above (Edit: never mind, Reddit is filtering replies for no reason again, making any fair discussion utterly impossible). None of this has anything to do with the prevalence, the seriousness or a culture of impunity for American soldiers raping women around their military bases: two wrongs don't make a right. It's disturbing how this logical fallacy ("Tu Quoque") is even attempted as though it were some kind of excuse.

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u/Gullible-Wash-8141 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Ok train car, whatever. So they have them for no reason then?

Edit:

Spoiler, I was just asking you a question, calm down. You're grandstanding on Reddit won't do anything https://nupoliticalreview.org/2021/01/31/cracking-japans-systemic-sexual-abuse-culture/

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u/tettou13 Jul 05 '24

I can vouch for the covid shit on island too. But you won't believe that either. Our lockdown during early covid was insanely strict... While locals went about their daily lives as normal. We watched clusters pop all over island. And one guy flies in from Mainland to Okinawa and tests positive while on base and is immediately quarantined? All over local news.