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...biggest draws, especially for Japanese women, are the real, live Americans. Amejo is Okinawan slang for girls who love Americans, but they can be found anywhere in Japan where Americans hang out, sipping beers in the bars around the Naval base at Yokosuka, dancing in clubs in Tokyo's Roppongi district. Ground Zero for the amejo and their subcultural peers, the kokujo, though, is Okinawa...
...media tries to pretend otherwise. In the days immediately following the rape charge, most news outlets didn't report on the race of the accused. Some Western journalists did, but they didn't note that his accuser was almost certainly a kokujo and that the nightclub culture around the Okinawan bases is almost as segregated as the Jim Crow South. When off duty, most military personnel tend to congregate according to race. The clubs that black servicemen frequent are also the haunts of kokujo. Of course, saying she was there to meet a man is not proof of consent...
...four days after an arrest warrant was issued on July 2, the U.S. refused to hand him over to Okinawan police, a move that infuriated Okinawans and many other Japanese. The Status of Forces Agreement between Japan and the U.S.?the so-called SOFA, which dictates service members' legal rights in Japan?protects even those charged with a criminal offense from incarceration by the Japanese until after an indictment is served. Among the reasons for this is the 23-day detention period, which the U.S. considers overly harsh. In fact, it was only after a 12-year-old schoolgirl...
...while 30 passengers drowned, a wave of resentment against the military swept the country. In recent years American service personnel in Okinawa?who make up half of the 47,000 stationed in Japan?have been similarly subjected to censure for repeated outrages such as raping a 12-year-old Okinawan and taking pictures up unsuspecting girls' skirts. Last week, four days after the sinking of the Ehime Maru, Okinawa police asked the U.S. to turn over a Marine suspected of arson attacks on several nightclubs in late January...
...other branches, the corps also discovered it had to begin educating recruits about fundamental values after 22 Marines were implicated in the 1991 Tailhook scandal and a pair were found guilty in the 1995 rape of an Okinawan schoolgirl. Drill instructors and recruits now have long talks on morality and choices. "We're teaching them how to think, rather than telling them what to think,"says Staff Sergeant Steven Manzo, a drill instructor at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island...