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At last. US military personnel have been raping Japanese women for decades.
Christ, I didn't know about that. The end of the article lists a couple more harrowing incidents for those looking for more info.
Also very usual in South Korea
Yes, horrible. But the way you wrote it made me wonder where in Korea they were finding all these Japanese women...
For every of these crimes that the US allows Japanese courts to prosecute, I wonder how many there are that they don't.
Japanese prosecutors dropped criminal cases against more than 300 U.S. service members in the last decade between 2014 and 2024, including a sexual assault case in Okinawa in 2020.
It is also worth noting that Japanese prosecutors mostly go for cases where it is almost certain they will convict. According to wikipedia, the conviction rate (aka % of convictions versus # of full trials) in Japan is ~99.3%. Looking at the number of indictments, Japan only convicts 37% of those.
Japanese prisons are not a good time
Asian prisons in general are not forgiving to inmates from the same country, imagine being a lone foreigner there. He’s fucked
He should have thought about that before raping someone.
That being said, I'm not in favor of non-rehabilitory prisons in general. I prefer the Nordic model for prisons, whers they're isolated from society, but still treated like people.
Some assholes don’t even deserve that. At least rapers and murderers deserve whatever they get imo
Don’t expect people to respect the sanctity of your body if you won’t do same for others.
An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
Not if retribution is purely transactional. It’s not like rape can be accidental, nor premeditated murder.
Wrong, an assailant has a maximum of two eyes to lose, they could at most completely blind one victim or partially blind two victims before being rendered blind themselves, which would make it extremely difficult to take a third eye from anyone
You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.
It's shameful that this is anything but obvious, but about fucking time.
It’s like every day I learn some new thing that makes me hate the US. (I’m american.) Three marines raped a fucking 12 year old? They should’ve been executed. Fuck the US. Okinawa belongs to Japan—FUCK the US military and each and every service member. Disgusting subhuman pigs.
As an Okinawan, "belongs to Japan" isn't something we want to hear tbh.
20 years ago - I was stationed in Korea, and a soldier was convicted and put in a Korean prison for attempted murder. He got into an argument and stabbed a Korean man in the neck.
I'd rather be sent to Leavenworth.
Hope he rots. He deserves a way worse imo.
Ofc the Rapist-in-Chief here in the US will "pardon" him and try to get him out of trouble. Wouldn't doubt if he gets a job offer...
I interpret for the Okinawan prosecutor's office and while I didn't have to deal with this case, I've interpreted for an Airman who raped a 16 year old. It's so difficult to remain neutral in situations like these.