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...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
...narrow the search, receiving instructions like "See that banana tree? A little to its left." One psychic agency claims it's getting up to 100 inquiries a day for its service, in exchange for "donations" of $40. Unlike the millions spent by Washington to help find missing U.S. servicemen, Hanoi gives no official aid in tracking Vietnam's MIAs, other than to warn families that they are being led to freshly buried bones...
...critical attention to them and their habits. "Amejo is a derogatory term, isn't it?" says Hitomi Murayama, 24. "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--and that includes toward American servicemen...
...dusk outside the gates of Kadena Air Force Base, neon signs flicker on as servicemen begin to congregate, poking around in the clothing stores, buying yakitori on sticks from street vendors and horsing around. Some of the men later make their way to the dance clubs, others to the billiard bars. As midnight approaches, carloads of women pull into the parking lots nearby. They fix their lipstick in the rearview mirrors and tease out their hair as if according to some military instruction manual. It's as if they're going into battle...