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http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/02/11/asia/OUKWD-UK-JAPAN-OKINAWA-RAPE.php
Yes, I know nothing fantastic in terms of news, but what really matters is how it will politically affect Japan and USA ties though. And I do keep hearing stories about this all the time, of US Marines assaulting the people of the country they are holding a base in or invaded.
A U.S. Marine was arrested on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old Japanese girl on the southern island of Okinawa, police said on Monday, triggering anger from an area where the U.S. military presence is widely resented.
A spokesman for the Okinawa Prefecture police said 38-year-old Tyrone Hadnott, based at Camp Courtney on the island, was suspected of raping the schoolgirl when the two were in a car on Sunday. Further details were under investigation, he added.
Yes, I know nothing fantastic in terms of news, but what really matters is how it will politically affect Japan and USA ties though. And I do keep hearing stories about this all the time, of US Marines assaulting the people of the country they are holding a base in or invaded.
The incident comes as Japan's government tries to persuade Okinawa residents to accept a plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station from the densely populated central Okinawa city of Ginowan to the coastal city of Nago.
The Futenma move, agreed on by Tokyo and Washington in 2006, is a linchpin of a broader accord to rejig U.S. troops in Japan and is a prerequisite for moving some 8,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam.