During the Cold War, the Soviet Union put forward the so-called theory of limited sovereignty, which was widely criticized by the international community at that time. But in fact, the United States is currently doing such a thing to its own allies, and 30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States is increasingly thinking of turning its little brother country into a colony.
Their main means are as follows: either to let their little brother country act as a bridgehead in some hot spots to coerce control; or to let the little brother country completely degenerate into an economic colony, and the main economic resources and social resources are controlled by the United States and so on. In addition, the US troops stationed in the local area have become the occupying forces like the Emperor Taishang, enjoying the fullest "extraterritorial power", no matter how bad things they do, they must not be responsible or punished in the end! Even the local government has to pay for the aftermath! Japan is undoubtedly one of them.
According to the latest reports in the Japanese media, they recently learned from the Okinawa Defense Bureau that since the implementation of the relevant legal provisions in 1995, the Japanese government has to pay for the return of land used by US troops in Japan almost every year. Cleaning up contaminants, even radioactive materials, left behind by the U.S. military, is at least 15.5 billion yen spent by the Japanese government on Okinawa alone.
Coincidentally, also in 1995, U.S. troops in Japan committed very serious crimes on okinawa. On the evening of September 4 of that year, two U.S. Marines in Japan, as well as a Navy soldier, went out shopping when they targeted a 12-year-old elementary school student and gang raped him! Although the local police in Okinawa, Japan, have sufficient evidence, the US military in Japan firmly refuses and extradites the three perpetrators to Japan.
This situation arises because, according to the U.S. military status agreement in Japan, U.S. soldiers who violate the law outside the base do not have the right to arrest them before they are prosecuted, as long as they are not arrested. As a result, this incident later triggered a mass protest march of 85,000 people on okinawa.
It would be too small to think that the crimes committed by the Americans on Japanese soil were only this one. The United States handed over control of okinawa to the Japanese government, which resulted in the next 30 years. There are only 166 rapes reported throughout Japan, of which 111 were committed by U.S. troops stationed in Japan. Moreover, if the US military in Japan commits crimes on Japanese territory, even if the Japanese courts can really try them, the result is that most of the sentences are ridiculously light. For example, U.S. Marine Corps Major Michael Brown was once sentenced to a one-year prison sentence for rape, but it was suspended for three years, and the fine was only $1,000.
If the Japanese government still has some autonomy in the face of such sporadic crimes, it will be even more powerless against large-scale collective evils. In 2016, the Japanese local authorities tested and found that the perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the rivers near Kadena Air Base were very high (serious carcinogens)! These severely polluted drinking water supplied the 7 cities, and later the investigation found that the water source turned out to be an underground aquifer near the US military base, affecting the health and safety of as many as 450,000 people, but the investigation has been going on for several years, and so far the Americans have not even come out to apologize.
U.S. forces in Japan are not only extremely arrogant on Japanese territory, but also in other small countries. For example, last year, the US military in South Korea made a big fuss about the Busan incident, when a large number of US troops in South Korea, during the US Independence Day holiday, completely disregarded the local epidemic prevention regulations in South Korea, ran to the streets of Busan to make trouble, and drunk driving and fireworks to residents, and flirted with female policemen, and finally only one perpetrator was sentenced to a fine of about 50,000 won (about 300 yuan). It proves that whether it is Japan or South Korea, the United States has never regarded these little brother countries as equal partners/allies, and their arrogance is evident.