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...Others later do. For about an hour she dances and drinks with a black American former serviceman and Okinawa resident. She tells him she moved to Okinawa a month before and is working at a hospital. Her American boyfriend is in the U.S., she continues. When they decide to leave together, the American says something to a friend about money?13, to be exact. "I do not look 13," the girl fumes, misunderstanding him, and abruptly returns...
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...incident instantly became a lead television news story, another point of contention in U.S.-Japan relations, and a disturbing metaphor for how the two countries coexist. With 25,203 U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa, there is a depressing predictability to the news cycle surrounding a serviceman's being accused of raping a native woman: outrage by the Okinawans, expressed concern by the American military, formal protest by the Japanese government, and finally, an indictment and trial of another flyboy or marine...
...Force Staff Sergeant Timothy Woodland, 1.9 m tall and 24 years old, now resides in a jail cell behind the Okinawa district court. Denied bail, he will live here through his trial, which will begin in September and could last as long as a year. He's got English-language books, a Bible and American-style meals, but no cigarettes, TV or air-conditioning. He isn't allowed to speak or write to friends and family. His mother Arlene Jordan, who works in the engineering services department at the Army's Fort Eustis in Hampton, Virginia, says she used...
...Woodland and the woman he was with knows what exactly went on that night. Both parties' allegations are firm, if irreconcilable: she says rape, he says consensual sex. Ideally, the case would come down to police work, lawyers' arguments, witness testimony and an impartial judiciary. But this is Okinawa in 2001, and a black American serviceman stands accused of raping a Japanese woman. Which means an already murky case has been churned into a raging whirl by nationalist politics, screaming media, a half-century of dammed-up local grief and?roiling unmentioned beneath it all?an undercurrent of racism...