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

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Japan's Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa expressed "deep pain" over five sexual assault cases involving US forces.


Japan said Thursday that cases of sexual assault in the country involving US forces “cannot be tolerated,” urging Washington to prevent such incidents in the future.

Expressing “deep pain” over revelations of five cases of sexual assault by American forces, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa said “the occurrence of these incidents is such that I feel this cannot be tolerated.”

Kamikawa was addressing questions by reporters on growing cases of sexual assault by American soldiers.

Around 50,000 US troops are deployed in Japan under a bilateral security pact, roughly half of them in Okinawa.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Wednesday that five cases of sexual abuse by US forces were detected last year in Japan, most of them in Okinawa.

The incidents have caused a great deal of anxiety in the local community, said Kamikawa.

“It is something that should not happen…These incidents are extremely regrettable, and when I think about the victims…I am deeply pained as a foreign minister,” she said, referring to her role in the Taskforce on Women, Peace and Security.

“I am promoting the ideals and concepts (that) include the protection of human rights and dignity of women,” she said, according to a video of her news conference held in Tokyo.

The occurrence of sexual crimes “is the central challenge,” she added.

Kamikawa said “preventing sexual violence by military personnel…and the pursuit of responsibilities and punishment is what we emphasize.”

“Based on these ideals, we have been promoting approaches,” she said.

Demand for thorough communication with provincial authorities

Kamikawa said the Foreign Ministry will be working with the US side regarding “specific measures and will also ask them to be thorough about preventing incidents.”

The Pentagon said it regrets that sex crimes have been committed by American soldiers on Japanese soil and said US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was closely monitoring developments.

On concerns raised by authorities in Okinawa, Kamikawa said Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki lodged a protest over the issue and demanded thorough communication in connection with such incidents.

Authorities in Okinawa last week complained about the lack of communication with regard to sex crimes by US soldiers.

Tamaki also demanded discipline from the US side and the convening of a cooperative working group to prevent such incidents, said Kamikawa.

“I recognize the importance of cooperation (and) collaboration” with Okinawa, she said.

She said her ministry is taking a joint approach with other ministries to deal with the matter.

“It is the local government that is faced with the anxiety of the residents and having to deal with the crime counter-measures,” she said.

Last week, prosecutors indicted US Marine Jamel Clayton for attempted rape and injuring a woman.

Clayton was arrested in May and indicted by the Naha district prosecutor’s office on June 17.

Prosecutors last week also indicted Senior US Airman Brennon Washington for the alleged sexual assault and kidnapping of a minor last December.

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I couldn't find any pictures of either individual named. But "Jamal" and "Brennon"?

The USA is culturally enriching Japan it seems.

 

[Chilson]

Japan said Thursday that cases of sexual assault in the country involving US forces “cannot be tolerated,” urging Washington to prevent such incidents in the future.

As much as I find perpetrators of sexual assault to be scum sucking worms who should be killed post haste, what the fuck do you want the US to do to prevent it beyond the current efforts?

Start putting mandatory chastity cages on soldiers junk and locking them in their dorms when they are in Japan?

 

[Hitman One]

As much as I find perpetrators of sexual assault to be scum sucking worms who should be killed post haste, what the fuck do you want the US to do to prevent it beyond the current efforts?

Start putting mandatory chastity cages on soldiers junk and locking them in their dorms when they are in Japan?

Death by firing squad would be my preferred option.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

lmao, japan complaining about sex crimes, lol. guess it is only a problem because it is done by american and not by jap men.

 

[Absolutego]

As much as I find perpetrators of sexual assault to be scum sucking worms who should be killed post haste, what the fuck do you want the US to do to prevent it beyond the current efforts?

Start putting mandatory chastity cages on soldiers junk and locking them in their dorms when they are in Japan?

This is the Japs telling the USA to gtfo because, at this point, they're re-arming and don't want to deal with Americans on their territory anymore because we're no longer useful.

 

[Rei is Shit.]

One of the humiliations you must take when you are a colony.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

As much as I find perpetrators of sexual assault to be scum sucking worms who should be killed post haste, what the fuck do you want the US to do to prevent it beyond the current efforts?

Start putting mandatory chastity cages on soldiers junk and locking them in their dorms when they are in Japan?

They could do what Jet Li does, and settle it in an old fashioned brawl. Could win money too.

 

[Cirrhosis_of_Liver]

If we move our operations to Guam where they can't rape the citizens of one of our few actual allies, the island will capsize.

 

[Alexander Thaut]

hey america's finally getting called out for all the nigger servicemen raping asians.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

This is the Japs telling the USA to gtfo because, at this point, they're re-arming and don't want to deal with Americans on their territory anymore because we're no longer useful.

that is until china starts actually shooting, then they will run crying for help, just like every single other country in the world who complains about america. the ukraine situation is prime example. every single european man woman and child complained about america until putin invaded ukraine, now they cry about how immoral and terrible it is that america isnt send its entire military there. america being the world's policeman is terrible until the moment shooting starts.

 

[Absolutego]

that is until china starts actually shooting, then they will run crying for help, just like every single other country in the world who complains about america. the ukraine situation is prime example. every single european man woman and child complained about america until putin invaded ukraine, now they cry about how immoral and terrible it is that america isnt send its entire military there. america being the world's policeman is terrible until the moment shooting starts.

I don't know if you and I have been watching the same Ukraine war, but they're getting pretty damn upset with us for reigning them in. France and Poland especially. Even the Germans are getting uppity about it.
I mean, it'll horribly backfire on them because none of their armies are as good or experienced as they think they are, but we're beginning to pivot to where being the world's policeman is a burden to our allies rather than a strength. That will probably prove true in Japan, though they've been more cavalier than most in the last 20 years about sending their men abroad to go get seasoned so their military isn't a totally hollowed out showpiece.

 

[Joe Shmoe]

As much as I find perpetrators of sexual assault to be scum sucking worms who should be killed post haste, what the fuck do you want the US to do to prevent it beyond the current efforts?

Start putting mandatory chastity cages on soldiers junk and locking them in their dorms when they are in Japan?

Well let's just say, there's a certain characteristic connecting all the soldiers who did it

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

This is the Japs telling the USA to gtfo because, at this point, they're re-arming and don't want to deal with Americans on their territory anymore because we're no longer useful.

No, they are trying to tell the US that they don’t worship niggers and that they’ll start pushing to execute nigger rapists soon enough.

You can hire straight up whores in Japan. The Yakuza for a while basically made their entire business model off of getting slatternly whores to act as a bulwark to occupying Americans. There was literally a black magazine that tried to do mail order Japanese brides at the time, but it failed because only a few wanted to marry blacks or move out of the Japan to have mutt kids.

The big rape and kidnapping in the Clinton years in Okinawa of a minor was because blacks weren’t smart enough to offer a whore double when she turned them down. They instead rented a van, bought rope, a mattress, and took a child off the streets.

 

[TheDarknessGrows]

That's comforting.

 

[Cirrhosis_of_Liver]

that is until china starts actually shooting, then they will run crying for help, just like every single other country in the world who complains about america. the ukraine situation is prime example. every single european man woman and child complained about america until putin invaded ukraine, now they cry about how immoral and terrible it is that america isnt send its entire military there. america being the world's policeman is terrible until the moment shooting starts.

Jap morale is why Hitler ended up in a ditch covered in diesel fuel, while the war criminal and absolute Monarch Hirohito just had to say he wasn't a living god, while winking. We roflstomped the nazis, but rightly decided invading Japan would mean oceans of blood.

I agree that the Euros are decadent and unwilling to protect themselves, but I think the Nips are remembering who they are.

 

[David Kirk Ginder]

Well let's just say, there's a certain characteristic connecting all the soldiers who did it

I'm gonna guess 4 out of the 5 cases were niggas. Maybe even all 5.

No, they are trying to tell the US that they don’t worship niggers and that they’ll start pushing to execute nigger rapists soon enough.

There's an amusing and graphic historical example of a bunch of Japanese villagers dragging a nigger rapist to the back and killing him. Don't remember the wikipedia link, maybe someone else knows which one I'm referring to.

 

[isalaide]

You give the blacks hentai, and send them to an island full of slant children, the outcome is inevitable.

 

[Tony Vivaldi]

All Gaijin troops out of Japan. Problem solved.

The big rape and kidnapping in the Clinton years in Okinawa of a minor was because blacks weren’t smart enough to offer a whore double when she turned them down. They instead rented a van, bought rope, a mattress, and took a child off the streets.

That was two Marines and a Navy Hospital Corpsman who did that circa 1996. I believe they were White, though.

The USMC Commanding General was fired after remarking something regarding they could have got a whore instead for a decent price. He wasn't wrong.

Also, the verbiage "cannot be tolerated" vice "WILL NOT be tolerated" means they can't and won't do shit about it.

 

[Montalbane]

Man
The US sends some real sick fucks to okinawa

 

[bigasscigar]

M

Man
The US sends some real sick fucks to okinawa

Marines arent known for their intelligence.
That quote about Japanese propaganda in WW2 saying something along the lines of "Marines are released convicts" probably isnt far from the truth nowadays given the quality of recruits.