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...Rape Charges in Okinawa...
...just finished reading your story on servicemen in Okinawa and the rape case involving a male African-American Air Force staff sergeant and a young Japanese woman [WORLD, Aug. 27]. Thank you for a balanced article. I am a former Marine, and was stationed on Okinawa in 1996-97. The shock and shame from the 1995 rape of a 12-year-old girl by three servicemen were still reverberating then. All the same, I am sick and tired of articles that portray our military men as violent and the Okinawan women as innocent schoolgirls. Ninety-nine percent of the servicemen...
...agree that there are biased public views on crimes by U.S. servicemen, especially among Okinawans. But what led you to conclude that if the defendant in this rape case were a Japanese man, he might never have been indicted? There are lots of factors that we may not know at this stage. It is an oversimplification to make that comment. CHIEKO INADA Kochi City, Japan
...frequent the clubs in Okinawa act the way they do because of what they see on the Generation X TV they watch. The solution is for the U.S. government to offer a training program that provides a better understanding of Japanese culture and language. Beyond that, anyone who commits rape should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. At the same time, anyone who falsely accuses someone of rape should suffer the same fate as a convicted rapist. Then people would think twice about making such charges. RAY FERNANDEZ Okinawa...
...unhappy at the shamelessness of Americans today. Is it O.K. for an American soldier to rape a woman if the place is the parking lot of a bar? Is it O.K. for an American soldier to rape a woman if she is drunk? Is it O.K. for an American soldier to rape a girl if she is a kokujo [a woman who likes black men]? Is it O.K. for an American soldier to rape a woman if he is black? The time, the place, the situation, the woman and the race--none of these can be excuses for rape. NAME...