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...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 are good kids...
...ever since. The boss man, Mr. Marse, kept telling me that potato picking is a great challenge and a boon to civilization and the manly thing to do and that if I quit working, my life would lose purpose and meaning and I would be unable to bear the shame...
...promoter Ishii puts Don King to shame, selling out every event he has ever held, including last year's championship in the 55,000-seat Tokyo Dome. In Japan, K-1 fighters like world champion Ernest Hoost, a 6-ft. 5-in., 220-lb. Muay Thai kick-boxing expert from Holland, enjoy rock-star status. The sport is also gaining audiences in Europe and in the U.S. A recent event at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas kept Ishii's sellout streak alive, and a new PlayStation game is bound to hook any American kid who just might...
...Suzuyo Takazato, founder of the Rape Emergency Intervention Counseling Center in Okinawa and an Okinawan assemblywoman. Makiko Tanaka, Japan's female Foreign Minister, is reported to have said to colleagues there must have been "something wrong with the girl, going out so late at night." Old-fashioned attitudes impose shame and blame on the victim. Studies say this limits the number of rapes reported to the police to between 1% and 10% of the actual incidents...
Meet Gabriela and Nicole Unguez. Last winter their tiny bedroom was such a wreck--toys and books blanketing the floor, clothes spilling out of the closet--that their mother Rebecca laughingly entered the twins in a contest for "America's Messiest Kid's Room." To her great shame, they...