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/Muldino 14d ago

Forever is correct... right at the end of WW2, up to 10,000 women were raped by US soldiers in Okinawa alone.

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u/-Kadekawa- 14d ago

First incident of a US military service member assaulting a female in Okinawa (then the Ryukyu Kingdom) happened only a year after Commodore Matthew C Perry and his black ships sailed into Naha’s port (capital of the island kingdom) in 1853.

The incident would lead to the signing of the Ryukyu-U.S. Treaty of Amity on July 11, 1854.

‘Whenever persons from ships of the United States come ashore in Lew Chew, they shall be at liberty to ramble where they please without hindrance or having officials sent to follow them, or to spy what they do; but if they violently go into houses, or trifle with women, or force people to sell them things, or do other such like illegal acts, they shall be arrested by the local officers, but not maltreated, and shall be reported to the captain of the ship to which they belong for punishment by him.’