Everyone must have seen the news. In December last year, American GIs sexually assaulted a 16-year-old Okinawan girl. On the night of the incident, the girl's family called the police. Then, there is no "then".
Until June 25 this year, this matter was widely exposed by the media.
The Okinawa prefectural government was the last to know about this case, and it was the place where the case took place.
It turned out that behind this was the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs helping to conceal it for more than half a year.
On the 25th, Okinawa Prefecture Governor Danny Tamaki, who had just learned of the case, angrily denounced the atrocities of the US soldiers involved as "unforgivable," and the people of Okinawa once again took to the streets to demonstrate against the US military stationed in Japan and the Japanese government.
In response, Nicholas Evans, commander of the 18th Air Force Regiment of the U.S. Air Force stationed in Okinawa, said only one sentence that day -- "I deeply regret it."
It wasn't until two days later, seeing the growing public outrage, that Evans, who was "deeply regretted," went to the Okinawa prefectural government building to meet with Okinawa Prefecture Deputy Governor Takeshu Ikeda, but did not say how to punish the soldier.
Currently, the indicted and arrested U.S. soldier has been released on bail after paying a bond.
In fact, according to the results of the handling of American GIs after the fact, the punishment this time may not be very serious.
Typically, like the murderer who dumped his body after rape in 2016, Kenneth Shinsato, a civilian at the U.S. military base in Kadena, Okinawa.
On the night of the crime, Kenneth Shinsato drove for about two or three hours to look for his target, and saw a lonely Okinawa female employee Hiroshina Rina, attacked her from behind with a wooden stick, grabbed her by the neck and dragged her into the car, took her to an abandoned factory and raped her and stabbed her to death, and then stuffed her body into a suitcase and dumped her body in the jungle.
This is Kenneth Shinri
The victim, 21-year-old Gelina
Eventually, because of the outrage caused by the case, both the U.S. and Japanese governments felt tremendous pressure, and Kenneth Shinsato was sentenced to life in prison. But he only served his sentence in a local prison in Okinawa until 2018, and was sent to the United States for "supervision", and it is estimated that he should have regained his freedom by now.
Okinawa police escort Kenneth Shinsato
This is already the heaviest sentence among all the US troops stationed in Japan.
And Okinawa is the area with the highest concentration of US troops stationed in Japan and the highest crime rate.
For more than 70 years, the people of Okinawan have suffered from the US military.
In March 1945, before the end of the Pacific War, incidents of Okinawan women being raped by American GIs began. The following year, Okinawan women gave birth to mixed-race babies.
According to official statistics in Okinawa, from June 1945, when the U.S. military completely "liberated Okinawa," to 1949, there were 76 cases of rape by U.S. troops alone, and 11 of them were raped and killed.
After the war, as the base in Okinawa continued to expand, there were more and more American GIs, and similar rape cases and even rape-related homicides increased day by day.
For more than half a century, there have been news of American GIs raping Okinawan women almost every year, and there have been many cases of gang rape and rape of elementary and junior high school students, or brutal murder and dumping of corpses after rape. The victims ranged in age from 6 to 70, but to date, none of the American GIs involved in the case have ever been killed.
Of course, you can also say that the Japanese don't care about Okinawans at all.
After all, there is no Okinawa Prefecture in the world, and since ancient times, there has only been the Ryukyu Kingdom.
Ryukyu was once an independent country, and its relationship with China was similar to that of Lee's Joseon, and it took the initiative to become a "vassal state" of the Chinese Dynasty, paying tribute to the Chinese emperor and accepting the canonization of the Chinese emperor.
The following is a ceremony for the king of the Ryukyu Nakayama Province to receive the canonization of the Qing envoys in the modern cosplay, which is one of the signature events of Okinawa Prefecture.
The king of the Ryukyus wore a Ming crown.
In modern times, the Ryukyus were forcibly occupied by Japan and renamed "Okinawa Prefecture", but according to the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, the Ryukyus are not part of Japan's territory from the perspective of international law. Even in the 70s of the last century, according to the "San Francisco Peace Treaty between the United States and Japan", Japan officially regained Okinawa in an all-round way. However, at the formal international level, Okinawa's sovereignty is still "undetermined," and what Japan has obtained is only "jurisdiction."
What is embarrassing is that even with this "jurisdiction," the Japanese government still cannot control and does not dare to manage many aspects.
Moreover, let alone in Okinawa, even in Japan itself, the Japanese government cannot control the American soldiers.
Originally, according to the "Japan-US Security Treaty," all criminal activities of US troops stationed in Japan, including Okinawa, were investigated by the US military internally, and the Japanese authorities could not intervene, let alone have the ability to intervene directly.
Until 1995, a 12-year-old Okinawan elementary school student was gang-raped by three U.S. soldiers on his way home and then thrown directly on the main road. After the incident was exposed, it triggered large-scale protests across Japan, constantly pressuring the Japanese government and shouting the slogan "US troops get out of Okinawa."
Under pressure from all quarters, then Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto urgently negotiated with the US military and revised the agreement on the extraterritoriality of US forces stationed in Japan. Since then, only US military personnel who have committed crimes in Japan can be handed over to the Japanese police for investigation and custody, but the trial will ultimately have to be court-martialed by the US military itself, and Japan's domestic laws will not apply.
The Japanese people are angry, but apart from protesting and pressuring, what can really be done...
In fact, it is also a consistent practice of the Japanese to exchange women for the so-called "national fortune".
Where did the money come from for Japan's war of aggression in modern times? A large part of it was sent back by generations of "Nanyang sisters".
At that time, some Japanese government officials and politicians used every opportunity to hype up and encourage "women to be emancipated productive forces" and tried their best to advocate and promote Japanese women to "go out" and go overseas to earn foreign exchange for the country and their families.
According to statistics, during that time, more than 1.4 million Japanese women went to Nanyang to sell skin and meat.
If you are interested, you can take a look at the old Japanese movie "Wangxiang", which tells the story of this million-dollar spring girl "going to the South Seas".
The family of "Sister Nanyang" is ashamed of them while spending their hard-earned money. Most of these "Nanyang sisters" eventually died alone in poverty.
Especially the "Nanyang sisters" who died of illness in Southeast Asia, their tombstones all chose the direction of turning their backs to the motherland...
Also, after the defeat in World War II, where did the money come from for Japan's resurgence to rise?
Of course, it was the United States that gave me the opportunity.
Since we want the United States to give us a chance to make money, we must make the "foreign masters" of the United States feel comfortable.
When the United States first began to garrison Japan, the Japanese authorities used coercion, inducement, and coaxing to set up a large number of special professionals who specialized in "serving" the US military. But it didn't take long for it to lead to a large-scale epidemic of venereal diseases within the U.S. military, as well as the creation of mixed-race children. Sexually transmitted diseases and pressure from military families in the United States forced MacArthur to force the Japanese government to cancel this concentrated "comfort" behavior.
With the banning of the form of "official recommendation" in Japan, the private trade in skin and meat has exploded again.
As a result, there are "Japanese" words such as "Pan Pan" and "An Li".
"Pan Pan" was originally an American GI describing the flat breasts of Japanese women, and the English name is "pan" (pan, probably the same meaning as the current use of "airport" to describe women's small breasts).
However, panpan refers specifically to Miss Japan in the station street of that period.
"An Li" is relatively more "classy" - from "only", that is, this Japanese girl has a special American GI to support, and only "serves" him.
These two look quite "husband and wife"
At that time, children from the bottom of the Japanese population often knew two sentences in English, one was "Do you want to meet my sister?" and the other was "I want chocolate". The former is used to solicit customers at home, while the latter is used to beg.
The children also play a game called Panpan Game. Similar to role-playing, some people pretend to be American soldiers, and some people pretend to be "Pan Pan".
How can I say that, perhaps, some of the industries that Japan was particularly good at in later years had something to do with this history?
Even, regarding the fact that American GIs had children with Japanese women, the mentality of the Japanese at that time was generally accepted, and there were even Japanese scholars who specifically called for this move to improve the Japanese people's national characteristics of "flat face and short legs", and should be vigorously advocated. But at the same time, he also proposed that the American GIs who could help "improve the breed" should be a "high-quality race" dominated by Europa.
Unfortunately, there are still quite a lot of blacks in the early days and in the current U.S. military stationed in Japan.
Of course, this situation did not last long, and with the rise of the Japanese economy after the war, no one made "panpan" for the sake of food, and no one was willing to mention that period of history anymore.
Often, they masturbate with explanations like "American GIs are bodyguards we paid for."
But the temperament of the Americans has not changed much, and they still regard themselves as uncles here, always with an inexplicable sense of superiority. Even regardless of the occasion, once you get drunk or take too much drugs, you will casually take other people's good women as the object of your desires.
If women resist, they will encounter a violent output at the least, and they will die directly.
On the American side, as mentioned earlier, because they have the corresponding "extraterritoriality," after the US military commits a crime, the US military bases in Japan solve it behind closed doors. Before 1995, the Japanese side did not even have the power to arrest and intervene in investigations. More pressure on the U.S. military side comes mainly from the Japanese people.
Of course, similar to South Korea next door, a country that has always been known for its strong character and super self-esteem, still can't do much backbone in the face of some "foreign uncles".
The U.S. military stationed in South Korea, in addition to sexually assaulting women, some daily rampant and domineering are more of their norm.
There's quite a lot of news about this. For example, the U.S. military stationed in South Korea took a taxi and beat up the 58-year-old driver instead of paying; Because of the kind reminder of the sentence "cross the street to see the red light", the Korean aunt was beaten by the American soldier and fractured her finger bones and ribs; A U.S. Marine was unhappy with the transfer of posts and deliberately tripped over a South Korean uncle, causing him to fracture his thigh tibia.....
And in 2020, on the sidewalk in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea, two drunken U.S. troops stationed in South Korea were playing electric skateboarding on the street when they knocked a woman down. After the two escaped, they were intercepted by the South Korean police on the spot, but the South Korean police did not arrest them at the first time, but quickly handed them over to the local US military.
This is because, according to the "Status of Forces Agreement in South Korea," the US military enjoys "extraterritoriality" in South Korea, and even if the South Koreans report to the police, the South Korean police have no right to arrest and detain them.
The South Korean government will handle the compensation work for the South Korean victims itself, and it will not bother the US military much.
According to the "Status of Forces Agreement in South Korea," the South Korean police can continue to detain US troops only when they commit 12 heinous crimes, including homicide, rape, drug trafficking, and beating to death, on the ROK mainland, without first handing them over to the US military. However, the investigation of the case and the trial process must involve the US military.
In front of the U.S. Embassy, South Koreans played the role of U.S. troops stationed in South Korea, kneeling and being handcuffed
However, in reality, even if there is a real death, it will be difficult for the South Korean side to intervene in the final trial.
For example, the protest photo below is set against the backdrop of the June 13, 2002 incident in which two 15-year-old Korean middle school girls were run over to death by a U.S. armored vehicle in Yangzhou, Gyeonggi Province.
Because it was a homicide, the South Korean police directly arrested the two US soldiers who caused the accident. But soon after, it was handed over to the US military to deal with itself. In the end, the two people who committed the crime were acquitted, and only the representatives of the US military made a verbal apology; The South Korean government stepped in to compensate and pacify the accident.
Similar to the Japanese, the opposition of the Korean people has always been high against the US military, which is a powerful force. But the paradox is that at the same time, they have a kind of admiration for these so-called "high-quality people" and "strong people".
Even if they don't admit it, they may have a bit of this mentality in their bones.
As a result, in Japan and South Korea, the US military has long been accustomed to taking this kind of "supra-national treatment" for granted. Even if sometimes, in the United States, their identity and social class may belong to the discriminated group, but as long as they set foot in these two East Asian host countries, they will instantly become "people", as if wearing the "gold belt of murder and arson".
Let's talk about the case of a 16-year-old Okinawan girl who was raped by an American soldier. The U.S. military "deeply regrets" on the surface, but secretly may still be muttering, this is a big deal...
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