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...lack of manners. E-mail messages from Lieut. General Earl Hailston, the Commander of U.S. forces in Okinawa, leaked a few weeks ago referred to the island's governor, Keiichi Inamine, and other local politicians as "nuts and a bunch of wimps." Says Suzuyo Takazato, a member of the Naha City Council in Okinawa, "These incidents are not isolated cases. They paint a picture of an arrogant and unruly military from the very top to the bottom...
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...
...Okinawa (pop. 1,000,000), worshipers at a memorial service in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Naha, the island capital, will give thanks to the spirits of the dead for the return of sovereignty to the motherland. But there will probably not be a repetition of the dancing in the streets or displays of fireworks that accompanied the first reports in late 1969 that the U.S. was getting ready to return political control to Tokyo. Even though most Okinawans welcome the change, they have had time enough for uneasy second thoughts about their island...
...legislative veto has not been invoked directly: Okinawan lawmakers simply do not introduce bills that they feel may be killed. But several officials have been removed in the past, and when Naha in 1956 elected a Communist mayor, the then-High Commissioner forced him out of office...