Word: takazato
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...lifestyle, the woman who accuses Woodland has taken a beating in the court of public opinion. In late July she sent a letter to the media begging reporters to stop hounding her and her friends. "There is victim bashing both in the press and by the public," says 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...
...court of public opinion, both Woodland and his accuser have taken a beating. In late July the putative victim sent a letter to the media begging Japanese reporters to stop hounding her and her friends. "There is victim-bashing both in the press and the public," says 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...
...geopolitical game. In 1995, after three U.S. servicemen raped a 12-year-old girl, 85,000 Okinawans took to the streets to protest. Alleged crimes like the one last week just feed the sour mood. "How long do we have to wait until this ends?" asks Suzuyo Takazato, a member of the legislature of Naha, Okinawa's largest city. "Why can't the U.S. take these men and their training and do it somewhere else...
...after three servicemen raped a 12-year-old girl, 85,000 Okinawans staged a peaceful but angry protest. Over the years, a series of outrageous sex crimes have made the U.S. servicemen seem totally out of control. "How long do we have to wait until this ends?" asks Suzuyo Takazato, a member of the legislature of Naha, Okinawa's largest city. "Why can't the U.S. take these men, and these bases, and their training, and do it somewhere else...
...answer to Takazato's plea is that the issue is a lot larger than Okinawa, as unsatisfying or patronizing as that may sound to the Okinawans. Japan's nominally pacifist postwar constitution paved the way for the U.S. to establish a military beachhead in the land of its World War II enemy. Okinawa, by virtue of geography, suits American purposes because it is near the Korean peninsula and the rest of Asia. It suits Tokyo's in two ways: the U.S. presence reduces Japan's need for fielding its own army, and it segregates a substantial portion of the American...