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Japanese officials angry after 2 U.S. sailors arrested in Okinawa rape case

US troops are in Okinawa by invitation. The Japanese could vote at any time to have the Americans leave. In fact, there have been several referendums on the matter, but they always choose to keep American troops around.

There are 36,000 young men stationed in Okinawa at all times. You are referring to a case that is nearly 20 years old. Clearly, this sort of thing doesn't happen very often.

1/36,000 soldiers * 1/20 years = 1/720,000 odds a soldier will rape someone this year.

RDS said:
Here's a hot tip for you. This is not a petty issue.
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Peter Grimm said:
US troops are in Okinawa by invitation. The Japanese could vote at any time to have the Americans leave. In fact, there have been several referendums on the matter, but they always choose to keep American troops around.

There are 36,000 young men stationed in Okinawa at all times. You are referring to a case that is nearly 20 years old. Clearly, this sort of thing doesn't happen very often.

1/36,000 soldiers * 1/20 years = 1/720,000 odds a soldier will rape someone this year.
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Actually, the case is not 20 years old.

"The two men, both 23, are alleged to have raped a Japanese woman in the early hours of Tuesday morning, leaving her with an injury to her neck, police said. They were taken into custody later that day."

The article mentions a similar case that happened in 1995, but in the first paragraphs it is discussing a case that happened this past Tuesday.
 
Crime happens no matter where you live. Our servicemen in Okinawa don't account for a very large portion of the crime committed there. Turning this into a mountain because of your personal disdain for the US military just weakens your stance.
 
I want to deviate a little but it's still a related issue. Those statistics does not mean much because there will be many unreported cases in Okinawa and within the US military itself.

Rape within the US military has become so widespread that it is estimated that a female soldier in Iraq is more likely to be attacked by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. So great is the issue that a group of veterans are suing the Pentagon to force reform. The lawsuit, which includes three men and 25 women (the suit initially involved 17 plaintiffs but grew to 28) who claim to have been subjected to sexual assaults while serving in the armed forces, blames former defence secretaries Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates for a culture of punishment against the women and men who report sex crimes and a failure to prosecute the offenders.
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Rape in the US military: America's dirty little secret | Society | The Guardian
 
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