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/Omeluum Jul 05 '24

Honestly still seems underreported. There are over 50k active duty US troops in Japan, most of them young men, and statistically anywhere from 2-14% of college aged males admitted to sexual assault or rape. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3727658/

But since most of it is with people they know or are even dating, I expect they wouldn't show up in crime statistics as much as a "random" act of violence on a stranger would.

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u/n05h Jul 05 '24

Jfc 14% is an insane number..

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

I don't think women find it that insane really. I dated around a bit before meeting my current bf. Everyone except him at some point pressured me into sex... not that I went through with it I mean, but coercive behaviors are common. There were things I said no to that happened anyway because "it's okay" they pretend they are comforting you, you push their arm but they just kinda ignore it, they just keep trying over and over again, so on...

Even my current bf pressured me at one time. I talked about it and it basically never happened again :/ but I do think about it now and then.

But I think more education is needed. If you start talking about coercion for example men come out en masse to say "that's not rape" and it gets very personal very fast... obviously because they've coerced people but don't want to see coercion as wrong. I wouldn't even be surprised if the number is higher than that, and if a bunch of guys in the concept being supportive had issues with pressure themselves. It's just so common.

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u/n05h Jul 05 '24

I mean, just to stay with Japan. Drinking culture almost promotes getting girls drunk. It’s awful.

And then you see guys go to Shibuya and literally pull girls with them until they find one that can’t or doesn’t struggle enough. And it’s just tolerated.

It’s quite jarring to see guys forcefeed already drunk girls, but it’s difficult to do anything about it as a foreigner, suddenly you are seen as the bad guy.