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...Cathy Booth Thomas...
...unsympathetic to the woman, her amejo and kokujo peers are downright harsh. Some gossip that the victim dated the defendant; others speculate that her friends shamed her into calling it a rape. "We amejo feel the girl was in the wrong," says Maki Oshiro, 27, sitting in a semicircular booth at a hip-hop club called Else, one of a number of spots frequented by black U.S. servicemen. "She probably didn't know how to behave. We're here because we know it's where the Americans gather. These guys aren't scary. We know how to handle them...
...Reported by James Carney, Matthew Cooper, John F. Dickerson, Michael Duffy and Douglas Waller/Washington and Cathy Booth Thomas/Crawford
...couple of days later, I'm in bed trying to inhale air through a blue plastic tube so as to raise a white plastic disc up past the 3,000-ml level. It's a version of the high-striker booth at the state fair meant to clear the lungs. The prize is a fit of coughing, which is good for your lungs and which feels like you're taking machine-gun rounds in the chest. But I keep making progress, not wanting to let down my buddies in the ward...
...That's why it's hard for many of the women to swallow the rape charge against Woodland. "We amejo feel the girl was in the wrong," says Maki Oshiro, 27. She and a girlfriend are sitting in a semicircular booth at Else, sipping cocktails and watching the dance floor. "She probably didn't know how to behave. We're here because we know it's where the Americans gather. These guys aren't scary; we know how to handle them." She mentions Lucie Blackman, the English woman murdered last summer outside Tokyo; a Japanese businessman is being held...