I don't get it. I see a person as a person, not base on his color or nationality. You said that US soldier raped Japanese woman, but without that raping incident, aren't there any rape accident caused by Japanese men to Japanese women? Why caused a fuss about it? Every nation has its own kind of criminals. Japan and US are too close so the criminal could target people under a different flag.
And there is this joke about 2008 Olympics: a foreign athlete had to compete with a Chinese athlete. One day before the match, he commited suicide. In his dying letter, he explained that he could compete with one man, ten men, but he could never go agaisnt 1 billion people. Comment me on this statement: to Chinese, one crime commited by foreigner to a single Chinese is a crime against all the people of China.
i will myself discard my opinion if you can show me an in-service japanese soldier dares rape even a japanese woman on us soil. and please don't confuse civilian crimes with crimes done by soldiers, there are two different courts, one for civilians and one for army for a reason. i don't see the rapes in okinawa as isolated petty crimes, they still convey a subtle message which you are not getting