
An American soldier has been arrested for the very Japanese crime of upskirt photography, apparently having spent a little too much time absorbing the local culture.
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American and Chinese warships have “nearly collided” after an aggressive manoeuvre by a Chinese captain in the South China Sea.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 29, 2013 00:58 JST
- Tags: Chikan, Crime, Kanagawa, Schoolgirls, Upskirt, US Military, USA, USFJ, Voyeurism

A US soldier has been captured by a 39-year-old Japanese woman after being caught taking upskirt photographs of a schoolgirl on a bus, and has been charged with chikan related offences more normally associated with salarymen despite his protestations that he was “aiming at her face.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 26, 2013 19:51 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Alcohol, Crime, Kanagawa, Military, Police, US Military, USA, USFJ

A US sailor has died under perplexing circumstances after trying to smash his way into the home of an elderly man from a 6th floor balcony, falling to his death when police arrived for some reason.
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The leader of Japan’s third largest party has spoken of the “cold” reaction his suggestion to the commander of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma that he have his soldiers make better use of Japanese prostitutes received, and for good measure has stated that Japan’s wartime use of “comfort women” was justified too.
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A Chinese man arrested deep inside one of America’s major naval bases in Japan claims he infiltrated the base as he “didn’t want to go back to China” and that he “wants to join the US army.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 28, 2012 12:19 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Crime, Earthquakes, Fukushima, Litigation, Military, Politics, US Military, USA


US sailors who helped the quake-stricken Japanese as part of “Operation Tomodachi” are now suing them for exposing them to radiation.
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A US sailor has been arrested for lurking naked in a Yokohama manga cafe in the middle of the night despite a military curfew, though he protests that he “only urinated in there.”
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A US serviceman is in hospital after a drunken rampage in which he broke into a Okinawa apartment and beat up a schoolboy, broke their TV and then fell out of their 3rd floor window, all in violation of a rape-induced curfew.
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Opponents of the US military’s Japanese bases have been crowing over the announcement that all US forces in Japan will be curfewed as punishment for 2 of their number gang raping an Okinawan woman with the belief that they would be safely on a US base in Guam by the time cops acted.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Oct 17, 2012 05:54 JST
- Tags: Crime, Military, Okinawa, Police, Politics, Rape, Texas, US Military, USA

A pair of US sailors have been arrested for gang raping an Okinawan woman they plucked off the street, with the incident threatening to further inflame anti-base sentiment in Okinawa, even as Japan’s legion of online rightists provoke widespread disgust by attempting to recast the rapists as innocent victims of an evil Chinese “honey trap.”
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Anti-American protesters in Okinawa have been flying kites and balloons around a US airbase in protest against the deployment of the supposedly accident-prone V-22 Osprey to the islands, in what critics suspect is an effort to deliberately induce an accident to better prove their point.
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