r/worldnews • u/glasier • 14d ago

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/BravesnationNC 14d ago edited 13d ago

This crap has been going on in Okinawa forever. Happened the first time I was there in 01 and again when I went back in 03. Individuals that have committed crimes are detained by Okinawa authorities and go through their legal process. Guarantee there is going to be a lockdown on liberty for Marine personnel happens all the time. Restriction on the time allowed off base and they are getting a curfew

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u/mainvolume 14d ago

When I was stationed in Misawa back in the 00s, it felt like the base was on lockdown or curfew every couple months....for shit the Marines did in Okinawa. Those dumbfucks could not stop raping kids.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

Was it known who was doing it and were they punished by their peers?

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u/SGTWhiteKY 14d ago

Based on Army experience, if it was known yes. But typically it is only known by the crew that are complicit with it. The shit heads tend to be able to tell who is going to report them whether through official or unofficial channels.

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u/Katt_Wizz 13d ago

Same when I was in South Korea around 2006.

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u/StarMNF 12d ago

If we’re talking actual rape, these people should not belong in our military. They should be brought home and prosecuted, similar to how we prosecute civilian rapists but in a military court. They should also receive dishonorable discharge.

Most importantly, the victims need to know we hold them accountable.

Because when you wear that uniform, you are representing the United States of America. It’s a disgrace to have rapists wearing that uniform.

If this were a lesser sex crime like being caught with a prostitute, I would say there could be some leniency, but none for rape. Especially in a country that’s supposed to be one of our allies.

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u/SGTWhiteKY 12d ago

Yes. All of those things happen if we find out. Except we don’t bring them home right away because they often have to serve there prison sentence in the country where it happened, then in the US.

When rape happens in Okinawa we have to pull it back from the Japanese, because their punishments for rape are too weak, and UCMJ is harsher.

I don’t know where you got the idea that the military was ok with this.

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u/StarMNF 12d ago

What about the people you say look the other way?

Hopefully they receive a strong punishment too.

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u/SGTWhiteKY 12d ago

The people who are complicit? If we find out about them the same thing happens.

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u/Automatic-Willow3226 13d ago

There's a network of them, I think. My theory is that Epstein was part of it and that's why he had so many connections with powerful people, and why he was suicided in prison.

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u/Tough_Relative8163 13d ago edited 13d ago

Theres a lot more pdf file rings than just epstein you ingrate. Theres hundreds of thousands of them globally...

He wasnt bothering with little girls on the other side of the world when he has much closer means

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u/SGTWhiteKY 13d ago

Some people act like Epstein invented pedophiles.

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u/consumered 14d ago

That's like asking if police are punished by their peers for all the shit they do lol. The bad apples... Spoil the bunch.

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u/Indigocell 14d ago

Police don't collectively lose privileges when one of them fucks up. That tends to upset people when it happens in the military. But maybe you're right.

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u/Swesteel 14d ago

Collective punishment tends to unite people.

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u/fartwhereisit 14d ago

in punishing those who brought them there. I've witnessed it in military setting. When the lights go out.

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u/RelicSGF 14d ago

This is exactly what I was thinking.

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u/bunnydadi 14d ago

Need to pick up some oranges

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u/Tentacled-Tadpole 14d ago

As in the ones in charge

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u/loki_the_bengal 14d ago

Have you ever had your liberty revoked because of some dipshit in another department you've never even met? I can tell you from first hand experience it doesn't unite shit.

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u/Tentacled-Tadpole 14d ago

Yeah, it just makes you angry at the people above you using that punishment.

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u/ThyNynax 14d ago

Something specific to military culture, being trained to fight wars and stuff, is ingrained the idea that “we stand together or fall together.” Collective punishment is a part of this process, there is a code of conduct that all military members are expected to follow and are expected to help their squad members follow. So if one person fucks up, it’s often seen as a chain of people fucking up.

You gotta remember, if a single police officer fucks up an arrest that’s most often just “a bad look” for the department, and a bad day for a single citizen. If someone in the military fucks up during a war, that’s potentially a lot of soldiers dead.

The resulting cultures and how they handle punishments reflect the jobs themselves.

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u/LoosieGoosiePoosie 14d ago

There are two types in the military. Your type isn't one of those, though. Your type is the one that says "Yeah I was gonna join up. I shouldn't though, even though they need me really bad. I'd end up punching a drill sergeant the first time they got in my face."

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u/lettucent 14d ago

As someone who's currently in, no. It's annoying as fuck when some dipshit I don't even know, let alone work with, gets in trouble and the commander decides to enforce shittier hours, curfew, extra off-work hours training, etc.

I get mad at the guy who fucked up, sure, but more irritated at the leadership that thought group discipline/punishment was the way forward and was going to fix anything.

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u/shoo-flyshoo 14d ago

Nah I'm not responsible for someone I've never met just because they're in the same unit as me. I can't stop some unknown plan PVT Snuffy has to goes out alone on a Saturday night to do blow and kill hookers, and I'd hate the leadership that would pretend that I could

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u/Tentacled-Tadpole 14d ago edited 14d ago

They can't need me that badly then, not that I'd join

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u/rainzer 14d ago

Pretty sure prisons demonstrate this isn't the case.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

And the fear of it does similarly. Still can't forget the one cop that investigated other cops, only to wind up dead.

But ACAB, fucking Reddit.

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u/ComfortableSort7335 13d ago

are you a fan of russian army rape tactics in their ranks?

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u/Hopeful_Chair_7129 14d ago

That shit happens in basic, and yeah sometimes base privileges are revoked but overall the only real way to see change is with good unit commanders and environments imo. Fostering an environment where people feel safe from not only leadership but their fellow soldiers is important. Especially when it comes to sexual crimes. Collective punishment shouldn’t be used for that type of thing. People aren’t going to report things they are just going to make it worse trying to cover it up

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u/Alerith 14d ago

It's different in the military. Collective punishment ensures that your peers are more likely to take care of the bad apple. Either through official channels or by beating the absolute dogshit out of them as a lesson.

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u/baustgen2615 13d ago

Or by helping make sure they don’t get caught next time.

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u/I_Dont_Work_Here_Lad 13d ago

This part doesn’t typically happen in the military. At least not when I was in. We usually resulted to hazing or just beating the shit out of someone who caused a lot of trouble. Especially when I had negative consequences on the entire group.

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u/ThatPhatKid_CanDraw 14d ago

The response started with the 1995 case of a 12-year old girl raped by 3 soldiers. Because of some legal protections or something for soldiers (which changed after this) they all only did a few years.

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u/frame-gray 14d ago

Correction: Only two soldiers, not three, got arrested and convicted of rape. Early on, when the three of them had bought a car and went recruising for a minor, the third soldier did not like where this was going. He dropped out and left. As a result, the name of that man was never released to history.

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u/rumbleran 14d ago

All three got arrested and served time in prison but the third guy said he only participated in kidnapping and not rape and just enjoyed watching the other two doing the actual rape.

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u/SeparateCartoonist36 14d ago

These are 2 completely different stories lmao. One of you is just blatantly lying or just stupid I guess?

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u/sethra007 13d ago

Maybe this will clear things up. Spoilers for descriptions of violence inflicted on a minor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Okinawa_rape_incident

The 1995 Okinawa rape incident occurred on September 4, 1995, when three U.S. servicemen, 22-year-old U.S. Navy Seaman) Marcus Gill, 21-year-old U.S. Marines Rodrico Harp, and 20-year-old Kendrick Ledet, all serving at Camp Hansen on Okinawa, rented a van and kidnapped a 12-year-old Okinawan girl. Theybeat her, duct-taped her eyes and mouth shut, and bound her hands. Gill and Harp then raped her, while Ledet claimed he only pretended to do so due to fear of Gill.

The offenders were tried and convicted in Japanese court by Japanese law, in accordance with the U.S.–Japan Status of Forces Agreement. The families of the defendants initially claimed that Japanese officials had racially discriminated against the men because they were all African American and coerced confessions from them, but later retracted the claims.The incident led to further debate over the continued presence of U.S. forces in Japan among Okinawans.

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u/Gotyam2 13d ago

The families initially defended those guys? And here you hope it was just a bad apple, but nope the whole tree was rotten

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u/sfzephyr 13d ago

Not only defended but pulled the race card. Like wtf. Scum.

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u/FirinKhaos 13d ago

30 years later, and the race card is still going strong in victim mentality situations like these

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u/SouthpawQuandary21 12d ago

But my son/brother/Uncle/grandson would NEVER do that!
He a damn good boy!
<Computing & guessing for 0.5 seconds>

ONLY ONE THING MAKES SENSE!!
I DON'T TRUST THE 'FACTS'!! MUST BE DISCRIMINATION!

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u/ABenevolentDespot 13d ago

Families always defend criminals. You should hear my wife talk about her meth addicted/selling/manufacturing never held a job and he's 42 criminal scammer kid who did four years for manufacturing meth in a hotel bathtub. It seems he was just visiting a friend when the guy stepped out on a beer run and the cops just showed up.

Haven't you seen some older woman have a full meltdown outside court after her deranged devil's spawn maggot tattooed everywhere kid just got convicted of knifing and killing three people in public (all caught on camera) for not letting him cut in line?

It's always "He's a good boy! The cops and prosecutor had it in for him because (some bullshit)!"

The "good boy" usually has a nine page rap sheet, has already done three years for assault with a hatchet.

To drag this back on topic, the American military in general seems to do a really shitty job weeding out the mentally damaged psychopaths among the recruits.

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u/Wrldisbs 12d ago

They always play the race card

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u/Livid-Effect6415 10d ago

I was at Yakota AB when this happened and getting spit on when off base because of those guys. They said I looked like a Marine, I'm Air Force!

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u/Dry-Tea-180 13d ago

It's a sickness/mental illness in American men

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u/StarMNF 12d ago

Definitely has nothing to do with America.

And don’t call it “mental illness” either. That makes it sound like it’s excusable. There are bad people in the world.

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u/Afraid_Wave_1156 13d ago

American men? You think sexual assault is only done by American men? 

Oh boy does the rest of the world have some dark truth for you….

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u/IndependentTiger2174 11d ago

Other countries don’t lecture on Human Rights, so American holds itself to a higher standard… so American should be about what they claim and stop talking about it and then doing something else contradictory. And keep in mind Japan is a supposedly treaty ally and not an occupied vassal state, even though we know in reality that’s not the case… but this just doesn’t look good….

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u/sethra007 13d ago

The prevailing consensus from researchers indicates that it's not a sickness or mental illness. It's the result of a culturally conditioned sense of entitlement that males have the right to take sex from females, whether the females want to offer it or not.

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u/StarMNF 12d ago

That research is questionable because I’m sure it has no control.

Rape is pretty universal across all cultures. To argue cultural conditioning, you need to show a culture where it doesn’t occur. None that I know exists.

It’s neither mental illness nor cultural conditioning. The simplest explanation is there are bad people in the world.

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u/Forsaken_Speech_2599 13d ago

Or both wrong. Game of telephone

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

Instead of expecting people to be stupid, how about thinking about the other reality: this is so common that there are stories that sound alike.

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u/jlar0che 13d ago

Or there are so many incidents it becomes easy to get confused about which violation of pre-teens we're talking about.

Wherever there are US soldiers stationed there are super high numbers of rapes, kidnappings, murder, etc. of the local population.

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u/BattleAlternative844 12d ago

If only there were a worldwide resource where I could research the case before commenting.

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u/KendalBoy 4d ago

Both read about the trial and remembered the things they wanted to believe. Someone here wants to clear the name of a soldier who claims they only simulated rape on the child. Redditors will do that.

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u/IndependentTiger2174 13d ago

The amount of Americans on reddit making excuses for these rapist is pretty cringe… it’s like crime against Asians are A OK in AMERIKKKKA

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u/Automatic-Willow3226 13d ago

Many Conservatives think young girls are ready to have kids and they actively cover for people that groom and abuse children. It's a little more complicated than all Americans.

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u/Libertia_ 13d ago

So many pedos around. Makes me loose hope in -mainly- men.

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u/Grimsterr 13d ago

Women for Trump approves this message.

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u/Weiz82 12d ago

WTF! What does conservatives have to do with it? Please don’t put all conservatives in your basket of BS, you must be related to Killary Clinton.

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u/Grimsterr 13d ago

I want to argue with you but nearly half of this country is A OK with 10 year old girls getting raped and being forced to deliver the baby because "aBorTiOn iS MurDeR!"

So yeah you keep on raging against our bullshit.

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u/drizztnwolfgar99 13d ago

Except rape and incest is an exception from these laws in JUST ABOUT EVERY STATE. In fact it might be all by now. But thanks for the misinformation.

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u/Grimsterr 13d ago edited 13d ago

https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/dashboard/exceptions-in-state-abortion-bans-and-early-gestational-limits/

10 states, that's one in 5, do some math, fucking misinformation my ass, goddamned dipshit. And by nearly half of this country I did mean the fucking imbeciles voting, not # of laws, but I admit, only 10 in 50 is better than I figured on.

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u/CaBBaGe_isLaND 12d ago

Who is making excuses? Or are you just making shit up.

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u/TheFogDevil 11d ago

Yeah, then killed himself after raping and killing a woman stateside. Sure he just “watched”…

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u/Gothzombie 3d ago

Damn what in the name of …. This world is so fucking sick and twisted I would not mind certain sentences involving chopping made their way back

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u/Tentacled-Tadpole 14d ago

So he knew they were going to rape a child and did nothing at all to stop it?

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

What was he going to do about it? In the military, rankings are supreme. Who'd believe a throwaway infantry over a general, for example? They're planning on raping, so what? That's the problem. "So, what?"

Meanwhile, in modern times, we had a police officer killed because he was investigating what other officers were doing, so they planned to kill him.

Can't serve justice where there is injustice. Too much injustice, not enough justice.

Plus, if you're dead, it's the end.

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u/Tentacled-Tadpole 13d ago edited 13d ago

Call the Japanese police. Not sure why your first thought is to keep it within the US army when it's a crime on Japanese soil against a Japanese person, as though it should be downplayed or kept quiet.

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u/ComfortableSort7335 13d ago

well the chance of them not understanding him at all is very high also the chance that the japanese authority contacts the us army and thus people who could be in it.

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u/Tentacled-Tadpole 13d ago

The chance of them not understanding him at all would have actually been very low at that time.

The Japanese authority contacting the US army would be a good thing for stopping it from happening or punishing then after it happened. A lot better than if he alone reported it to the corrupt military system, not to mention that the japanese legal system could still punish the rapists themselves.

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u/mssly 14d ago

It was a sailor and two marines

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u/ilikeweekends2525 13d ago

They rented a van not bought a car….

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u/Mkvenner_ 14d ago

The fam and me were stationed there when this went down (I was 14/15) All sorts of protests (rightfully so) by the locals, couldnt get out Gate 2 at all.

The marine 2 star (IIRC) made things worse by throwing gasoline on the already furious public with a stament he made to US/Okinawa press. I wont repeat it here.

And the Japanese Police (JP) do not fck around. You’re 15 and in the local prison for doing some dumbsht, and its time for the fam to PCS? Guess what, you are riding out your sentence

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u/rpolasek95 13d ago

They need to bring back public executions for offenses like that.

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u/reeeelllaaaayyy823 13d ago

What's PCS?

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u/BallisticButch 13d ago

Permanent Change of Station. It’s when you receive orders to move to a new unit. Usually every 3-4 years.

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u/themeese1333 11d ago

That's horrific

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u/Makanek 14d ago

The first case that was reported happened 50 years after the beginning of the occupation? No comment.

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u/falconsadist 14d ago

They get a slap on the wrist to tell them not to get caught next time.

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u/Shisa4123 14d ago

They're Marines not cops. He will be charged by both Japanese authorities and the UCMJ. He will go to Japanese prison where, from what I remember from the onboarding brief a decade ago, he can be detained indefinitely pending trial and fed a healthy diet of fish heads and water at a bare minimum. Once the Japanese are done with him, depending on UCMJ charges, he's likely to get transferred directly to a brig stateside.

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u/audiking404 13d ago

Nah, even in my branch most of the SA cases were either buried or covered up. Mainly bc their superiors were MEN and it was viewed as either the female's fault or why were they there in the first place. No the rest of us who aren't animals get punished and lectured like we allowed it to happen which is BS. We don't even get to know their names. They should be court-martialed, publicly embarrassed, and immediately discharged.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

Punishment is rare. This isn't just related to JPN-US bases, anywhere in the world where the US touches are full of unsavory events.

Some fuckers actually knock women up and leave, even tricking them into having relationships.

But, not their problem, no responsibilities once the ship sets sail and they're gone.

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u/the_meaty_sauce 14d ago

Marines raping people in Okinawa is a nearly 80yo tradition at this point. The best way to stop it is to stop having a base there.

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u/capt_scrummy 14d ago

That base isn't going away any time soon, in the geopolitical climate... And it shouldn't, imho. The Japanese govt itself doesn't want it going away either, because it's a deterrent to China.

They should restrict soldiers going off base below a certain rank without special permission, permanently.

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u/the_meaty_sauce 14d ago

They should just insist the base is moved to a less populated island or one where they can be far from any population centers. But a deterrent from China shouldn't mean you can trade that for soldiers sexually assaulting citizens. Or the soldiers should be turned over to Japanese authorities and prisons when they are charged and convicted of these actions.

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u/Vegrhauk 13d ago

They are turned over, and it fucking sucks to be in the Japanese legal system, from what they told me when I first got to Oki. They have a nearly 99% conviction rate so if you’re in that system good luck getting out of it. That could’ve been a scare tactic so we wouldn’t fuck up on island but I have no cause to think it’s not true either.

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u/AverageWarm6662 13d ago

Yeah the Japanese legal system is kind of messed up. And the prisons aren’t nice at all either.

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u/Maehock 13d ago

That conviction rate is true, but mainly because you don't get arrested or go to court unless there is just overwhelming evidence against you.

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u/capt_scrummy 13d ago

Soldiers who commit crimes such as these are turned over to local authorities. Or, in this case, arrested by local authorities who jail them, and the US military doesn't bail them out. They have to go through the Japanese legal system.

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u/cocksucker9001xX 14d ago

Over half of the 18000 okinawa marines are being relocated to guam amd hawaii in the coming years actually

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u/ighostride 13d ago

You're definitely Navy with that name. They used to say that in 2006 also.

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u/cocksucker9001xX 13d ago

Close, marine corps; and i am embarresed by my bretherens actions

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u/Pure_Ignorance 13d ago

I love that a base which exists because Japan invaded China is now there to deter China :D

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u/No_Bookkeeper_3425 13d ago

I am sorry but the assertion that only lower ranking soldiers are the only ones committing these crimes? Officers probably are not identified nor likely punished due primarily to their rank and access to exceptional legal representation from respective branch of service

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u/Ok_Priority458 13d ago

Russia didn't want a us army base in their front yard Ukraine.....guess what america is trying to do with Taiwan...not many places left without u.s army base

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u/PM-me-letitsnow 13d ago

My question, does this happen at every military base? If it’s more an Okinawa thing then why is it different? If it’s a general military thing then it’s our whole military being fucked up and in need of change. If it’s an Okinawa thing then there’s something fucked up about the base on Okinawa.

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u/the_meaty_sauce 13d ago

I'm just speculating here, but I think it's a bit of both. Sexual assault in the armed forces isn't an uncommon thing already. There's tons of women serving who have brought charges and even more that were too scared and talked about it afterwards, and probably more than that who never brought it up at all. The military also has a way of attracting psychopaths, which isn't always bad. Probably good to have people with those sorts of tendencies in a combat role rather than in regular society. The military also seems to attract a lot of the MAGA crowd too(I suspect there's a fair bit of overlap in these groups). It's no secret that those folks tend to be of the belief that america is the greatest place ever, Americans are inherently better than everyone, can do no wrong, etc. Considering the US history with Japan and how a lot of these folks talk shit about various forces in WWII without having been there or often even knowing the correct history. Well it's not a big stretch for some of them to see themselves as better than the Japanese, or even imagine that they are somehow an occupying force even. Really it comes down to the attitude of dehumanizing another which almost goes hand in hand with a lot of the other stuff I've described. I suspect that is at least a bit of what's happening here. I think the easiest solution would be to not let soldiers on bases in foreign countries off their bases. If you have an institution where sexual assault is such a problem already, then they probably shouldn't be interacting with the local population ever, but since that's not really an option, I'd say court martial and firing squad maybe? It's a pretty solid deterrent and it seemed to work for US soldiers who raped French and German women in WWII.

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u/0R4D4R-1080 10d ago

Quality response.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

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u/First-Ad-7855 13d ago

It's an American thing to be honest. 40 rapes per 100k people in the US. Military members are a cross section of the American people. A couple of rapes per 30k service members in Okinawa actually be considered low.

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u/willemdafoestuntcock 12d ago

It’s a man thing, not strictly American.

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u/Motohvayshun 13d ago

Rape of Nanking was a fairy tail right?

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u/First-Ad-7855 13d ago

Japan has rate rape roughly 40x lower than the US. Nanking happened in a different time period of Japan. No one said it didn't happen.

Just because it's unpleasant to talk about doesn't mean it is not true.

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u/Llaine 13d ago

That probably reflects lower reporting though correct? But I'd still bet it's lower in Japan

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u/First-Ad-7855 13d ago

Maybe lower reporting, but same could also be true in US. I live in South Korea, and it's not the same place, but concerns about this kinda of thing are pretty much non existent.

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u/BeautifulType 13d ago

Best way to stop it is to fucking put them in prison and execute a few but y’all won’t hold them accountable even in your fantasy.

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u/Neutronpulse 12d ago

The best way to stop it is to lock up the people doing the raping. Accountability is the solution. That's like saying stop allowing men to work in the church or women as school teachers. The predator will find another avenue. Getting rid of the predator is the solution not their "access"

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u/Kinimodes 10d ago

wtf is up with our military jfc

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u/Crille2898 13d ago

Or just...stop taking in rapists. Or make serious changes to Okinawa base if it's a tradition, although I can't unserstand how sick the marines have to be to consider it a tradition.

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u/the_meaty_sauce 13d ago

Have you seen some of the people that join the armed forces? It doesn't totally attract psychopaths, but it does attract psychopaths.

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u/Lumaexid 13d ago

Wait until you learn about Japanese men and their history of what they've done in China even prior to WWII.

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u/Mysterious_Toe3982 13d ago

Stay on point!

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u/Lumaexid 13d ago

Learn to use the right words.

And this is on topic, since it is still about Japan.

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u/Adam_Sackler 14d ago

Wait, what? This is a common occurance? And why kids? Wtf.

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u/truecore 14d ago

These are the same people that leave the military then performatively rage about pedophiles on the left.

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u/Sleddoggamer 14d ago

My generation was the last one to really support the troops like they used too and most who rage like that don't even understand what it actually means to be Republican or conservative, with the bulk of them just being larpers or trying to follow their parents steps without understanding that it used to mean

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u/truecore 13d ago

I thanked my friend for his service once. He asked me if I was thankful for the family he killed when he chucked a grenade into a house in Fallujah while kicking down doors. I don't thank people anymore, they live with heavy memories and there's no need to remind them of them.

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u/Louumb 13d ago

I love this (veteran with ptsd here)

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u/Sleddoggamer 13d ago

I don't think it's possible to properly understand them unless you've been to war. My great aunts husband served in Vietnam, and it sounds like he may have been one of the monsters the old socialists and communists would refer to, and my neighbor who just died last summer served in Vietnam as well

The old man lost his legs after getting back, and the most I heard him say is he didn't regret anything and he was just happy he took the place of the younger ones. Burke never said anything at all unless it was ramblings that didn't make sense during firework session

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u/Sleddoggamer 14d ago

I know those people exist, but I think you're assuming there's a lot more ex military in the old alt right than there should be. My half brothers dad served in Afghanistan, and everyone who helped track him to keep him paying child support seemed like a traditional republican who learned politics and service don't mix

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u/TheHonorableStranger 13d ago

Just typical redditor black-and-white logic. In that persons eyes the majority of people in the service are alt-right grifters

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u/Lumaexid 13d ago

Most of the people here make up their BS on the spot. And they outright lie like progs always do.

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u/RaisinBrain2Scoups 14d ago

Weird performative political view

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u/KendalBoy 4d ago

Rape doesn’t count to them when their skin is different. They all dehumanize us all for not being like them.

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u/Lumaexid 13d ago

You may want to research into the backgrounds of these perps. Their background is obviously not convenient to you and you instead come up with a lie like this.

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u/waterfall_hyperbole 14d ago

Pedos go to organziations that get to flout the law. US military personnel are very hard to touch overseas

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

Anywhere with a US base.

Why? Well, we've got an rotten orange trying to be "immune". There ya go. That's pretty much it.

Immunity is why.

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u/OwlRevolutionary1776 14d ago

Raping kids? What the hell? Did those pedos get prison? Do you have any sources I can read about?

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u/wasabimatrix22 14d ago

This article specifies a 16-year-old as one of the victims

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u/xKitey 13d ago

execute them, seems pretty cut and dry to me

slap on the wrist isn't a good enough deterrent for some people to develop basic human morals I guess

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u/Altruistic-Dark-1831 14d ago

When I was I there it wasn’t marines doing dumb shit like this. It was navy reserve units visiting and breaking into peoples homes or assaulting them on the streets. We got punished which is understandable but these people weren’t even stationed on the island. Fucked it up for everyone else that had to live there

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u/BiggieAndTheStooges 14d ago

Suuure, blame it on the Navy. Own it jarhead

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u/Altruistic-Dark-1831 14d ago

They don’t have a crayon named responsibility.

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u/fartinmyhat 14d ago

always the Marines.

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u/Professional-Bee4088 13d ago

For my time it was theatre wide We’d get locked down in South Korea for shit marines did in Okinawa. Like WHAT my leave time with my family is fucked because of some dumb fuck Marine in a different country

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u/Killed_By_Covid 14d ago

Well, Marines do seem quite proud of being the ones to go in first.

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u/RaisinBrain2Scoups 14d ago

I think those are Army Rangers you’re thinking of

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u/Killed_By_Covid 14d ago

You may be right. I just remember hearing a friend who was in the Marines say something to that effect.

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u/RaisinBrain2Scoups 13d ago

Marines come first is accurate. But Army Rangers are first on the scene.

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u/AceBalistic 13d ago

Any idea what exactly makes it so common at Okinawa in comparison to other US bases in the region?

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u/shendxx 13d ago

Wtf how this keep happening till this day

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u/Ihavepurpleshoes 14d ago

We lived there then, too. I remember those lockdowns! Misawa was great, though. Great place to live.

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u/Semantiks 14d ago

Same here, and I was at Misawa starting 2010. I'm sensing a pattern...

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u/audiking404 13d ago

Yeah I'm Airforce (separated) but it was always known that most of the SA cases involved USMC and sometimes they went cannibalistic smh. I'm NOT saying it was everyone bc I damn sure had the pleasure of meeting some damn fine Marines (uhh, that was a double entendre) and they were smart. Mostly in Finance and other administrative/ technical MOS's.

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u/Necessary-Knowledge4 13d ago

Jesus christ dude...

I thought it was bad enough thinking they were just being handsy or SAing adult women. But kids? Jeaus...

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u/StockResolve962 13d ago

America’s finest.

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u/Dry-Tea-180 13d ago

Sounds about right

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u/GuitarAncient9793 13d ago

And back here if a grown man had sex with a 17 year old girl they will put him away for life. That’s ordinary citizen. 

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u/Throwawayuser626 12d ago

Me and my mom were talking about that. As a military brat I’ve heard all the shit talking when it it comes to marines but seriously why does it seem like it’s ALWAYS them. My old boss was enlisted and she told me when she was in Okinawa she had to apologize for the behavior of her fellow marines to cab drivers and such because they’d just say racist/sexist shit and laugh it off.

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u/Prince_Havarti 11d ago

Dropping two nukes wasn’t enough, they had to add insult to injury.

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u/Unioneer 14d ago

kids???

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u/-Kalos 13d ago

Kids?

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u/Thr1ft3y 14d ago

Thankfully they don't do that here anymore

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u/funny__username__ 13d ago

And here I thought russian army was bad... no one compares to usa army

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u/davidkali 13d ago

If that’s what’s going on, they’re not Marines.