Word: naha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Roderico Harp, one of three American servicemen accused of raping a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl, told a packed Japanese courtroom that U.S. military investigators coerced him into confessing to the crime. Harp, a 21-year-old Marine, testified at the Naha District Court that investigators from the Naval Criminal Investigative Services woke him at four in the morning two days after the incident. Harp said he told the investigators what happened, but they asked him to "go in another direction" and say what the "Japanese would like to hear." When the trial opened November 7, Harp and another Marine...
...scheme took shape, according to Japanese police, early in the evening of Monday, Sept. 4, the Labor Day holiday for Americans. Four U.S. servicemen stationed on Okinawa, home base to 29,000 American troops, met at a disco in Naha, the island's main city, and talked about grabbing an Okinawan girl and having some "fun." One man quickly backed out, but, he later told investigators, the other three, two Marines and a sailor, decided to cruise the seaside boulevards in search of prey...