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https://www.businessinsider.com.au/...arine-bases-in-japan-anger-authorities-2020-7

Japanese authorities are demanding answers from the US after a large scale coronavirus outbreak among Marines stationed in the country’s southern prefecture of Okinawa.

61 Marines have been infected with the virus in recent days, according to the Guardian newspaper, spread across two bases in the archipelago – which has long been a US military stronghold in the eastern Pacific.

38 of the reported cases are at the Futenma Marine air station. Another 23 occurred at Camp Hansen, a base that is home to around 6,000 US Marines.

“It is extremely regrettable that the infections are rapidly spreading among US personnel when we Okinawans are doing our utmost to contain the infections,” Okinawa’s governor, Denny Tamaki, said at a press conference, according to the Guardian.

“Okinawans are shocked by what we were told,” he added. “We now have strong doubts that the US military has taken adequate disease prevention measures.”

Tamaki is half American, being born to a father in the US military and a Japanese mother. He is the first American-Asian to take a seat in the Japanese House of Representatives.

It was previously unknown exactly how many US service personnel had contracted COVID-19, but the figures were released publicly after significant pressure on US authorities by Tamaki, the Associated Press said.

Previously, the US Marine Corps had vaguely referred to two “localised clusters” of infections, without giving a precise number of cases.

“After months with no confirmed COVID-19 infections on Okinawa, this week the Marine Corps experienced two localised clusters of individuals who tested positive for the virus,” a post on the official Marine Corps Installations Pacific Facebook page said.

All those infected are in isolation, the page added.

Okinawa prefecture has reported 145 cases of the virus with seven deaths, according to Japanese news outlet Nippon.

News of the outbreak among Marines comes as back home the US battles record or near-record numbers of new cases of the virus virtually every day and remains the pandemic’s global centre.

The US reported more than 66,000 new cases of the virus on Saturday, the biggest single-day increase ever, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

Okinawa’s connection to the US military stems from the 1945 Allied invasion of the area in the final months of the Second World War. After an invasion was launched in April 1945, more than 100,000 people were killed during nearly two months of fighting on Okinawa Island, the prefecture’s largest island.

In June, Japan and the US commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa, which was one of the final battles of the war, and ended six weeks before the US dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.


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https://www.businessinsider.com.au/...arine-bases-in-japan-anger-authorities-2020-7

Japanese authorities are demanding answers from the US after a large scale coronavirus outbreak among Marines stationed in the country’s southern prefecture of Okinawa.

61 Marines have been infected with the virus in recent days, according to the Guardian newspaper, spread across two bases in the archipelago – which has long been a US military stronghold in the eastern Pacific.

38 of the reported cases are at the Futenma Marine air station. Another 23 occurred at Camp Hansen, a base that is home to around 6,000 US Marines.

“It is extremely regrettable that the infections are rapidly spreading among US personnel when we Okinawans are doing our utmost to contain the infections,” Okinawa’s governor, Denny Tamaki, said at a press conference, according to the Guardian.

“Okinawans are shocked by what we were told,” he added. “We now have strong doubts that the US military has taken adequate disease prevention measures.”

Tamaki is half American, being born to a father in the US military and a Japanese mother. He is the first American-Asian to take a seat in the Japanese House of Representatives.

It was previously unknown exactly how many US service personnel had contracted COVID-19, but the figures were released publicly after significant pressure on US authorities by Tamaki, the Associated Press said.

Previously, the US Marine Corps had vaguely referred to two “localised clusters” of infections, without giving a precise number of cases.

“After months with no confirmed COVID-19 infections on Okinawa, this week the Marine Corps experienced two localised clusters of individuals who tested positive for the virus,” a post on the official Marine Corps Installations Pacific Facebook page said.

All those infected are in isolation, the page added.

Okinawa prefecture has reported 145 cases of the virus with seven deaths, according to Japanese news outlet Nippon.

News of the outbreak among Marines comes as back home the US battles record or near-record numbers of new cases of the virus virtually every day and remains the pandemic’s global centre.

The US reported more than 66,000 new cases of the virus on Saturday, the biggest single-day increase ever, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

Okinawa’s connection to the US military stems from the 1945 Allied invasion of the area in the final months of the Second World War. After an invasion was launched in April 1945, more than 100,000 people were killed during nearly two months of fighting on Okinawa Island, the prefecture’s largest island.

In June, Japan and the US commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa, which was one of the final battles of the war, and ended six weeks before the US dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.


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Wow it's not enough that they rape local schoolgirls, they have to spread a pandemic too :sick:

Reported for abusment with the last comment.
 
But his last comment are true, and many japanese people will agree with his statement

Post a link to an example of the last time US servicemen raped a school girl. If it's during recent years, then post another example of US servicemen raping a school girl. By doing so, then a reality of frequnecy is made apparent and so then I would withdraw my reporting action for being wrong. But if not, then my reporting of his comment at the end of his post stands.

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That's really naive of you. Abuse has already been reported, but authorities can do nothing because ultimate fact remains that Japan is a US satrap not a sovereign state. Those schoolgirls won't get any justice in the foreseeable future.

There's no way that such a crime could be kept out public knowledge and Okinawan news media.

So you need to post actual reported examples. If not, your claim is just shallow fluff.

Feel sorry for them, can't protect their people from their masters, Japan should kick them out.

Your feelings stand on artificial reality created by fellow pro-CCP posters. Even more artficial than artificially made islands in the South China Sea.
 
“No Rape, No Base, No Tears”
BY JESSIE KINDIG
11.29.2019
The US military presence around the world doesn’t just create death and destruction — in places like Okinawa, Japan, its bases foster an environment of sexual violence against women.

GettyImages-964375450.jpg


https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/night-american-village-review-okinawa-base
 
Post a link to an example of the last time US servicemen raped a school girl. If it's during recent years, then post another example of US servicemen raping a school girl. By doing so, then a reality of frequnecy is made apparent and so then I would withdraw my reporting action for being wrong. But if not, then my reporting of his comment at the end of his post stands.



There's no way that such a crime could be kept out public knowledge and Okinawan news media.

So you need to post actual reported examples. If not, your claim is just shallow fluff.



Your feelings stand on artificial reality created by fellow pro-CCP posters. Even more artficial than artificially made islands in the South China Sea.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2...ads-guilty-march-rape-japanese-woman-okinawa/
U.S. sailor pleads guilty to March rape of Japanese woman in Okinawa
 
“No Rape, No Base, No Tears”
BY JESSIE KINDIG
11.29.2019
The US military presence around the world doesn’t just create death and destruction — in places like Okinawa, Japan, its bases foster an environment of sexual violence against women.

GettyImages-964375450.jpg


https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/night-american-village-review-okinawa-base

The contents of the article is not invalid but the only case of rape on a school girl that it mentions was 1995. That's 25 years ago. So use of that article actually supports my reporting of the opening post.
 
“No Rape, No Base, No Tears”
BY JESSIE KINDIG
11.29.2019
The US military presence around the world doesn’t just create death and destruction — in places like Okinawa, Japan, its bases foster an environment of sexual violence against women.

GettyImages-964375450.jpg


https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/night-american-village-review-okinawa-base
What a disgrace. Rapeing local women. If it was any other country ppl will be outraged.

It seems Japan still paying for losing second world war.
 
US has been raping Japan for almost 80 years and Japanese nation had develped Stockholm syndrome and take US abuses for granted as basic facts of life.

That would be a nice goal post shift manuever if it was something not seen often.

Yawn.
 
The contents of the article is not invalid but the only case of rape on a school girl that it mentions was 1995. That's 25 years ago. So use of that article actually supports my reporting of the opening post.
It gives an example to how the general picture that still present today, otherwise they don't have to write this article now.
 
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