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...spring of 1945, hell came to Okinawa. America was poised to invade; the Japanese Imperial Army drove locals from cave hideouts and told them to sharpen bamboo spears to kill the invading "devil army," which they warned would rape and kill without mercy. Like other Okinawans, the citizens of Katsuyama cowered in wait. What happened next was a secret villagers would bury in one of those caves until three years...
...Three U.S. soldiers came upon the village on an exploratory foray and raped a local girl. They returned again and again to rape her and others, growing so fearless they sometimes appeared without weapons. The villagers finally had enough. One day, all the men and a few straggling Japanese soldiers ambushed the three Americans and stoned them to death...
...That's why it's hard for many of the women to swallow the rape charge against Woodland. "We amejo feel the girl was in the wrong," says Maki Oshiro, 27. She and a girlfriend are sitting in a semicircular booth at Else, sipping cocktails and watching the dance floor. "She probably didn't know how to behave. We're here because we know it's where the Americans gather. These guys aren't scary; we know how to handle them." She mentions Lucie Blackman, the English woman murdered last summer outside Tokyo; a Japanese businessman is being held...
...Instead of circling their wagons around one of their own, amejo and kokujo are disdainful of and angry at the victim. Some gossip she dated the defendant; others speculate her friends shamed her into calling it a rape. They all agree the incident has brought unwanted, critical attention to them and their habits. "Amejo is a derogatory term, isn't it?" says Hitomi Murayama, a long-haired 24-year-old in baggy hip-hop clothing. "It's just another way for mainland Japanese to look down on Okinawa. They don't understand that we Okinawans are naturally friendly and outgoing...
...Americans in the age of hit shows like Sex in the City this kind of talk isn't even titillating. But in Japan, admitting a sex life is scandalous and can scuttle a woman's credibility?nowhere more so than in a trial for rape. "The defendant's lawyer can use the number of a victim's sexual partners as evidence," says Yukiko Tsunoda, a lawyer in Shizuoka. "To win a rape case, a plaintiff often must prove violence, a threat to her life, and that she resisted with all her might...