The car hit and killed someone, but the murderer was at large, but the victim was asked to apologize, such a strange thing happened in reality.
According to Japanese media reports, in May 2021, a US military stationed in Japan drove into the parking lot of a local hotel while traveling on Mt. Fuji, causing a major accident in which two people were killed and one injured. After the accident, the Japanese police immediately launched an investigation, which was not complicated, and the Japanese police quickly figured out that the US soldier was in a state of fatigue driving at that time and should be fully responsible for the accident. However, as everyone knows, according to the Japan-US administrative agreement, the US military stationed abroad has extraterritorial jurisdiction, and the crimes they commit on Japanese soil are not subject to Japanese law, so how to deal with this US military is a headache for the Japanese side.
In this way, a year has passed, and in July 2022, due to too much pressure from public opinion, the Japanese government really couldn't stand it, and the court had to give a lenient sentence and sentence the US soldier to three years in prison for "negligent driving". Originally, the Japanese government had given an explanation to the Japanese people and the families of the victims, and the matter was over.
However, a year later, I don't know who suddenly mentioned this "inconspicuous little thing", and the temper of the United States suddenly came up: American soldiers, what qualifications does Japan have to judge?
As a result, on the occasion of the Camp David summit between the United States, Japan and South Korea in August last year, a number of U.S. lawmakers pressured Biden to get Fumio Kishida in person and take home the American soldier who was "wrongfully detained" by Japan. At the behest of the United States, Japan quickly relented: four months later, the American soldier, who had killed two people in a car crash, was extradited back to the United States.
Now that I'm back in the United States, it's easy. On January 12, the U.S. Parole Board announced that the U.S. soldier had been released and that it was "not necessary" to continue serving his sentence. As soon as the news came out, the US media forwarded the "good news" one after another, and also published a photo of the US soldier reuniting with his family with a smile on his face. It is hard to imagine how the families of the two Japanese who were killed in the collision felt when they saw these reports.
But the lower limit of this matter doesn't stop there. A few days ago, US Senator Mike Lee made a sudden attack, saying that Japan has an obligation to apologize to the US soldier and his family, and also needs to apologize to the United States. According to his logic, this US soldier left his homeland to serve in Japan in order to protect the safety of the Japanese, and the reason why he accidentally killed the Japanese was because he was "unaccustomed to the water and soil" after going to Mt. Fuji and suffered from "mountain sickness," and he was in an "unconscious state" due to his illness at the time of the incident, so he should not be held responsible for the accident. However, Japan has ignored these preconditions and "illegally detained" and "illegally imprisoned" him, causing tremendous harm to him and his family, and even more hurting the friendship between the United States and Japan, so Japan needs to apologize for this.
Many Japanese netizens demanded that the Kishida government give an explanation, while others lamented that "Japan has become a dependent country of the United States."
This matter is not small in Japan, but the Kishida government will not have any response, and the Japanese will always get used to the bad things done by the US military stationed in Japan.