American serviceman arrested for squeezing Aomori Prefecture teen’s breasts
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TOKYO (AP) — A U.S. serviceman has been arrested for the alleged sexual assault of a Japanese woman, the latest in a series of criminal accusations sparking anger against American military bases in Japan.
James Littlejohn, a 22-year-old airman first class who belongs to the Misawa Air Base in northern Japan, was arrested Friday on charges of groping a 19-year-old woman in Hachinohe, said a spokesman from police in the city near Misawa. He spoke on condition of anonymity, citing policy.
Littlejohn allegedly hugged the woman from behind, then forcibly touched her breasts and buttocks, the police spokesman said.
He then fled in his car, but was taken into custody after police stopped his automobile based on a description from the woman.
The case is a fresh embarrassment to some 50,000 American troops stationed in Japan under a security pact, following higher-profile arrests earlier this year.
A 22-year-old Nigerian in the U.S. Navy was charged in April with fatally stabbing a taxi driver south of Tokyo. A U.S. Marine charged with raping a 14-year-old girl in southern Okinawa in February is to be court-martialed.
The rape and a series of other damaging criminal accusations against U.S. troops have inflamed long-simmering anger at the American military presence, which is blamed for crime, pollution and crowding.
Deputy Cmdr. Joel Malone of the Misawa Air Base attempted to smooth relations with officials in Hachinohe and Misawa following Littlejohn’s arrest.
“We take every incident such as this very seriously and we will cooperate with investigation,” he told Hachinohe Mayor Makoto Kobayashi in a partially televised visit. Kobayashi demanded the Air Force step up troop discipline.
The rape accusation prompted the U.S. military to severely restrict troop movements on Okinawa and elsewhere, and conduct a review of its anti-sexual assault education programs and guidelines.
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I suspect you also suffer from Bush Derangement Syndrome, as Ameriphobes are usually also BDS.
I learned that in a college psychology course taught by a retired tranny hooker.
Wow, Akira is godly. Even his lies are true.
Re: “The rate of violent crime in cities hosting U.S. military bases, including U.S. cities, are vastly greater than the crime rates in any other cities.”
Right, so Yokosuka has a higher crime rate than Port au Prince, Mogadishu or Cairo? Interesting.
And are you suggesting that the US military should withdraw from American territory?
By the way, the rate of violent crime in Japanese cities hosting U.S. military bases is the same as the average crime rate in Japan. I learned that in a college criminology course taught by a retired U.S. federal judge.
If so, then why does the Japanese government continue to request and rely upon US military protection?
The rate of violent crime in cities hosting U.S. military bases, including U.S. cities, are vastly greater than the crime rates in any other cities. I learned that in a college criminology course taught by a retired U.S. federal judge. He stated that servicemen were difficult to prosecute because investigations required cooperation between the local police and the military, making the investigations far more difficult.
In recent years the situation has worsened because the military and the courts have conspired to coerce young criminals to take military service as an option to conviction and jail time.
Recently, the U.S.M.C. has requested that they be allowed to recruit convicted felons while they are still in jail. Face it, the U.S. military is in the business of exporting crime.
Since you’re interested in the incidence of rape in Japan:
“Chisa Fujioka | May 15, 2007
TOKYO (Reuters) - A man molests a young woman sitting next to him on a Japanese train, drags her to a restroom and rapes her while she sobs. Some 40 fellow passengers fail to intervene.”
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2007/05/15/little_sympathy_for_rape_victims_in_japan/
“Japan’s top government spokesman in 2003 was quoted as telling reporters in an off-the-record briefing that some women were asking to be raped by dressing provocatively — a remark that outraged many but failed to dent his political clout.”
Women-Only Train Carriages necessary:
http://www.dannychoo.com/adp/eng/529/Women+only+carriage.html
“Perverts Lurking Herabouts”:
http://www.dannychoo.com/images/photo/9290.jpg
RE: “I chose to post this because i’m interested in the repeated sexual offenses situation”
- The rate of sexual offenses committed by US military personnel in Japan is lower than the rate of sexual offenses committed by Japanese men in Japan.
- US military personnel found guilty of sexual assault are punished more severely than similar offenders under either the Japanese penal system or the US civil penal system. And much, much, much more severely than similar offenders in Western Europe or Canada. [e.g. 40 years in a US military jail versus 6 months"house arrest" in Canada]
But you’re free to continue spreading the sort of racist garbage that is common in the Japanese media. They especially love it when the alleged offenders are Black or Hispanic.
Same as when Chinese or Vietnamese etc rob convenience stores — all of a sudden it’s on the front page and there’s a “epidemic of foreign gangsterism!”
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From http://americaninjapan.blogspot.com/2005/03/rape-is-epidemic-in-japan.html
“Rape is an epidemic in Japan” by Gaijin Girl
Over the past couple weeks I have had more and more American tourists/mainland workers ask me about rape and other crimes in Okinawa caused by US military personnel. Japanese newspapers are notorious for giving misinformation about gaijin (foreigners).They give American military personnel an especially hard time because the Okinawan government does not want our bases to be here. Therefore they make a point of printing every little (or yes not so little) indiscretion done by an American when hundreds of crimes committed by Japanese Nationals largely go unwritten.
On the other hand there is a great source for reliable Japanese news in English at http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/ and to make people see the truth I did a simple news archive search using the term “rape” and came up with 239 listings that go back to 2000. Click on this post’s title to see the actual search results with links to the articles. Out of the 239 links I found about 35 that are US Military rape related, many are about the same rape like the gangbang in the late 90’s. Please take a minute and read through the following titles. Also keep in mind that I didn’t list links to the record number of 2,201 reported cases of women molested on Tokyo trains or links to the jp men who kill their wives and elderly mothers or the jp pedophiles, etc., etc.: (some are dupes for some reason)
1) Quarterback dumped from team after rape arrest
2) ‘Doctor’ arrested for trying to rape 8-year-old
3) Quarterback dumped from team after rape arrest
4) Justice Ministry to hand child sex offender info to police
5) Rapist robber says he needed money to get pilot’s license
6) GSDF members nabbed for gang-raping Miyagi woman
7) ‘Hysteric Blue’ guitarist handed 14 years for rape
9) Heinous child rapist admits torch killing to escape jail beatings
10) ‘Lonely’ boy uses Net to recruit buddies for schoolgirl gang rape
11) Machine tool operator faces 20 years prison for serial rape
12) Habitual sex offender gets 14 years for schoolgirl rape
13) 3 arrested for gang rape following change in law
14) Popular guitarist faces 18 years for multiple rape
15) ‘Super Free’ gang rapist’s appeal against 7 1/2-year sentence rejected
16) Rapist ‘deliveryman’ handed life sentence for robbery, sex attacks
17) 2 students charged after trying to rape fellow ski club member
18) 2 students charged after trying to rape fellow ski club memb
19) Famous ramen shop operator gets life for multiple rape
20) Rapist nabbed after returning to pick up dropped cell phone
21) Rapist nabbed after retuning to pick up dropped cell phone
22) Devilish dad jailed for 18 years for raping daughters
23) Leader of Super Free gang rape club handed 14-year term
24) Revenge killer bound for gallows
25) Life sentence sought for ramen noodle rapist
26) Life sentence sought for ramen noodle rapist
27) Judge gives rapist longer term than prosecutors sought
28) Local government official busted for attempted rape
29) Saitama sexual attacker collared after 3-year reign of terror
30) Nigerian serial rape suspect collared
31) Mailman busted for raping girl
32) High court dismisses Super Free member’s appeal over gang rape
33) Granny’s rapist charged with kiddy sex abduction
34) Rapist lab technician subdues victim with chloroform
35) 1 in 20 high school girls a victim of rape
36) Heinous attacker brags about schoolboy killing days
37) Teen admits to 100 rapes and robberies
38) Serial rapist booked
39) Hooded teacher uses stun gun on colleague in rape bid
40) Man who strangled woman in car wanted to rape her
41) ‘Super Free’ leader faces 15 years behind bars for gang rapes
42) Okinawa court sentences US Marine against victim’s wishes
43) ‘Rapeman’ copycat suspect in over 70 sex attacks on women
44) ‘Super Free’ gang rapist appeals 7 1/2-year sentence
45) Spurned teacher writes rude graffiti about schoolgirl
46) ‘Cancer,’ ‘excrement’ among controversial Japanese name character proposals
47) Super Free gang rapist handed 7 1/2-year prison term
48) Cancer claims Death Row prisoner still pleading innocence
49) First ever appeal filed against family court acquittal of teen
50) Convicted ‘Super Free’ rapist gets 10 years in slammer
51) Movie director in more hot water over steamy acts with minor
52) Man arrested for raping 10-y.o. daughter
53) Second Super Free gang rapist slapped with prison term
54) Super Free gang rapist now super jailed
55) ‘Hysteric’ guitarist faces new rape charge
56) Number of apprehended foreigners surges 23% to 20,000
57) Japan set to criminalize gang rape
58) Japan set to criminalize gang rape
59) ‘Remorseless’ serial rapist faces life behind bars
60) Record number of minors victimized in sexual crimes
61) Grandpa doctor busted for supplying young model with drugs
62) U.S. seaman busted for rape
63) 2003 Japan’s terrible teachers run gamut from exposed educators to idiot instructors
64) Japan’s Top Stories of 2003 — No. 5: Best and brightest on rape rampage
65) Famous ramen shop operator confesses to rape
66) Japan to tighten rape laws
67) Internet rumor of tot’s rape fuels parents’ fears
68) Internet rumor of tot’s rape fuels parent’s fears
69) Japan’s youngest criminal defendant gets jail for rape
70) Todai student busted for part in gang rapes
71) 11 elite students busted over gang rape
72) Famous ramen shop operator faces further rape charges
73) Perverted teacher accused of more monstrous attacks
74) College pair nabbed for injuring woman in rape attempt
75) Cries of terror foil teacher trying to rape fifth-grader
76) Student arrested over rape of Niigata woman
77) Man faces death penalty for burning rape victim alive
78) Gang-raping trio snared in Fukuoka
79) Junior high school boy nabbed for raping woman
80) Ex-elite students admit to gang rape
81) U.S. Marine gets 3 1/2 years prison for rape in Okinawa
82) Woman sues colleague, employer over office rape
83) Police to crack down on Chinese criminals
84) Evil monk busted for rape
85) Teen admits raping over 30 women
86) Juvenile crime hits record high
87) Net date site crimes becoming more violent
88) Leader of rape gang that targeted teens gets 20 years
89) Japan-U.S. at odds over procedures for crimes committed by military
90) Elite students hit with more rape charges
91) Suspected serial rapist nabbed in western Tokyo
92) Meiji Univ. student arrested for date-rape
93) Top LDP man calls foreigners ‘murderers and thieves’
94) Tokyo assemblyman convicted of rape walks free
95) College rape gang admits serial attacks
96) Student recalls close encounter with rape gang
97) LDP stalwart lauds college gang rapists
98) University student logs 60 cases of rape
99) Blind school official attempts rape of preteen girl
100) Online dating sites spark teen crime wave
101) Online dating sites spark teen crime wave
102) 5 university students nabbed over gang rape
103) U.S. Marine arrested for rape in Okinawa
104) Gov’t demands handover of U.S. rape suspect
105) Sergeant nabbed for teen rape, suspected of serial attacks
106) Assemblyman resigns over hostess rape case
107) Rejected rapist gets life
108) Families of ‘Chinese slayers’ sue newspapers for libel
109) Serial child rapist charged with accomplice over fourth attack
110) Okinawans tell US base: Your time is up — get out!
111) Marine accused of rape in Okinawa says fair trial impossible
112) Drunken cop arrested for attacking railway worker
113) Kinky teacher couple busted for lesbian date rape
114) Dating sites a hotbed of child prostitution: NPA
115) Youngest defendant shocks with rape confession
116) Youngest defendant shocks with rape confession
117) Suspected serial rapist nabbed in Tokyo
118) Japan’s reputation for safety slipping away fast
119) U.S. military ‘crimebusters’ live it up at public’s expense
120) Assemblyman arrested for raping hostess in love hotel
121) 15-year-old faces rape charges as an adult
122) U.S. military won’t hand over major accused of rape
123) Top U.S. Marine faces arrest over sex attack
124) Japan groans under rising crime wave
125) Japan groans under rising crime wave
126) Police sergeant gets 12 years for rape spree
127) ‘Mental instability’ allows crazed killer to walk free
128) Murder suspect admits to ’80s rape, killing
129) Suspected serial rapist refuses to enter plea in court
130) Man nabbed for schoolgirl sex attack may be serial rapist
131) ‘Cop’ rapes 79-y.o. woman
132) Gov’t official abducts schoolgirl for kinky romp
133) Blackman rape trial to commence October
134) TV Asahi serial rapist terrorized up to 20 women
135) Osaka schoolkid killer ‘planned mass murder 17 years ago’
136) MSDF sailor nabbed for trying to rape schoolgirl
137) TV Asahi trespasser named prime suspect in serial rapes
138) Arrested sex fiend duped gov’t employer to stay on payroll
139) Sentence upheld for habitual rapist of elementary schoolgirls
140) Suspect faces murder charges over body in vehicle
141) Sex crime victims seek info on attackers after release
142) Woman’s body found in car of man arrested for sexual assault
143) Okinawa marks anniversary with demand for solution to U.S. base issue
144) ‘Baby-faced schoolboy’ rapist snared in Tokyo
145) Lawyer gets 18 months for attempted rape
146) Celebrity cosmetic surgeon drugs, rapes model patient
147) Courageous schoolgirl seeks justice against teen rapists
148) Courageous schoolgirl seek justice against teen rapists
149) Cops snare serial rapist
150) Cram school teacher rapes call girl
151) Murderous ‘beast’ should hang: prosecutors
152) U.S. sergeant jailed for Okinawa rape
153) Pedophile handed life sentence for multiple sex offenses
154) U.S. sergeant jailed for Okinawa rape
155) Bag over head rapist admits to 50 attacks
156) Appeal to hang juvenile rapist-murderer turned down
157) Neighborhood man arrested for slaying newlywed woman
158) Minors feel brunt of rise in dating-site crimes
159) Child sex killer gets 11 years after late confession
160) U.S. sergeant faces 3 years jail for Okinawa rape
161) Child abuse deaths skyrocket
162) Chiba housewife’s pantyhose rapist-killer gets life term
163) Confessed rapist charged over schoolgirl sex attacks
164) Crime hits all-time high
165) Pedophile to pay for girl’s death
166) Pedophile sentenced to 16 years behind bars
167) Court rules disabled woman’s rape accusations lack credibility
168) Policeman rapes teen girl in car
169) GSDF member arrested for attempted rape
170) Hobo killer gets life
171) Killer kowtows to victim’s parents
172) Copper pinched for raping women at knifepoint
173) Accused gang rapist wins damages from Fuji TV
174) US military suspect denies rape charges
175) Ex-ASDF man gets 3-1/2 years in jail for raping minor
176) Baker ditches SOFA reform proposal
177) Okinawa awaits ASDF airman’s rape verdict
178) 2 GSDF officers, US man held for gang rape
179) Powell denies agreement to revise status-of-forces accord
180) Serial rapist locked away for life
181) US servicemen nabbed for Okinawa attacks
182) Talks line up handover of US military suspects
183) Victim sues rapist mimic
184) Notorious pedophile escapes charges for 1986 attack
185) Chinese women sue gov’t over wartime suffering
186) Okinawa Gov. pushes for review of US forces pact
187) Rape sparks demand for review of U.S. forces accord
188) Powell to swing by Tokyo over sex attack, Kyoto pact
189) US rape suspect raced off to prosecutors
190) Gov’t to stay put over Japan-US military agreement
191) Powell to visit Tokyo to discuss Okinawa rape case
192) US rape suspect arrested by Japanese police
193) US agrees to hand over rape suspect
194) US agrees to hand over rape suspect
195) Man attacks Foreign Ministry with fire extinguisher
196) Okinawa assembly demands revision of US agreement
197) Obara admits only to drinking binge with Blackman
198) Okinawa assembly demands revision of US agreement over rape
199) U.S. stalling over rape suspect heats up Okinawa
200) Obara admits only to drinking binge with Blackman
201) U.S. airman faces arrest for rape
202) Rape charges to hit only 1 U.S. serviceman
203) Okinawa cops investigate gang-rape angle
204) Military, Kyoto pact, reform top Bush-Koizumi talks
205) U.S. troops tied to gang-rape of Okinawa woman
206) Chipmunk suit pedophile gets 5-year jail term
207) Bizarre juvenile murder trial finally resumes
208) Internet rapists get 10 years
209) Internet rapists get 10 years
210) Serial-rapist charges hang over ex-teacher
211) Expert: Fading hopes leave Okinawans accepting bases
212) Expert: Fading hopes leave Okinawans accepting bases
213) Rapist charged over new threats
214) Court rules man falsely accused of rape
215) Obara formally charged over Blackman’s death
216) Gov’t eases off on youth punishment
217) Polygamist back in the game - big style
218) ‘Evil and cunning’ serial rapist gets jailed for life
219) Obara claims sex was ‘consensual’
220) MSDF officer arrested for assaulting woman
221) Lucie’s mom faces fate
222) Osaka sex offenses skyrocket in 2000
223) Suspicious photo points to Obara
224) US considers giving up arsonist Okinawa soldier
225) Phone calls tie up Obara
226) Cram teacher busted for raping teen
227) Tokyo child rapist gets life term
228) Obara denies raping hostesses
229) Marine in US court for rape
230) Clinton apologizes for crimes by troops
231) Okinawans fire at US military
232) DNA tests accepted as criminal evidence
233) US says sorry as Okinawa rages
234) Group to offer counseling to crime victims
235) Deadly 17-year-olds leave scar on nation
236) New stalking law ambushes first victim
237) South Korean admits to 140 sex attacks
238) Rape furor hits Okinawa
239) Schoolgirl gang-rapists foiled
Japan is full of a bunch of sick men. Many are mama’s boys who never learn how to interact with a real women so they wind up raping them. Their society of often violent manga and hentai teach young Japanese men how to interact with young girls inappropriately. Men can get away with murder on those trains and the cowardly police don’t do enough to protect these women. Many women are just as much to blame because they allow molestation to happen on crowded trains because they are too meek for confrontation. Japanese porn is largely rape and gang bangs.
Yes there is a large population of Americans in Japan, especially Okinawa. When Japanese people hear about a crime commited by an American they associate that crime with our entire society and think we all act in that manner yet the Japanese government turns a blind eye to their own problems because the gangs are more in charge of Japan than the government is, and also because they are too afraid of change. Maybe now is also a good time to mention that Japan is just the tiniest bit smaller, as far as land mass, than California. Chew on that for a while whydontcha.
… it’s the name of a hero:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_John
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Dear Việt,
Your a music & video internet saint!
Of course I know you can post whatever you want.
Re: “Whether you or anyone else want to put politic into it, that’s your choice.”
Please note that I only wrote here in response to three all-too-typically anti-US comments. (Interesting they weren’t equally anti-male…)
God bless you
- Akira
Rogergal:
Re: “the treaties it was obliged to sign”
- That’s what it means to lose a war.
Re: “in order to maintain the integrity of the country.”
- Right. The USSR declared war on Japan 1945-08-08, two days after Hiroshima, and therefore demanded all of Korea and half of Japan and the execution of the Emperor, since the USSR had been at war with Japan for one day. So yes, you are right, the American military occupation saved Japan as a nation.
There is no longer any occupation. There’s a S.O.F.A. The Japanese Diet can require their US allies to leave at any time. Obviously they have their own reasons not to do so. (Not least of which the increasingly belligerent Communist China and Kimilsungkimjongil-Country).
Just like the Philippines required that the US close Clark Airforce Base, which the US respectfully did so. Now Manila is desperate to have the US back as much as possible.
Same thing in BRD and ROK. ”
US get out! US get out!” blah blah blah. ANd then when someone like Rumsfeld suggests that BRD bases could be moved to hungary or Romania, or that US forces could withdraw from the DMZ to a base closer to Busan, all of a sudden it’s, “Oh, why is the US abandoning us!?!?!?!”
My opinions:
- The US should withdraw from Korea and let the Koreans go to hell and go back to their 1000-year long slavery under China
- The US should cut it’s European forces in half (at least), and let the over-aged, anti-natalist, arrogant, pampered and pompous Euro-weenies see what reality looks like.
- The US and Japan should strengthen their alliance. Japan should amend it’s constitution. The US should renegotiate it’s S.O.F.A. with Japan on a more equal basis, insisting that Japan be as committed to defending the US as the US is now committed to defending Japan.
- The Japanese (and South Koreans and Taiwanese for that matter) should get their nuts and wombs in gear and stop being so hedonistic and spoiled and start cranking out kids before they end up with a median age of 40+ and find themselves impotent in world affairs and dependent upon a hostile Muslim (in Japan it’s mostly Iranians and Pakistanis) gastarbeiter & illegal alien workforce (just as Western Europe is now forced to deal with it’s own Jihadi masses as a result of decades of arrogance, blindness, delusion and willful impotence/infertility.
Dear Akira, it’s obvious that your knowlegde in politics and history is quite defficient. U.S are not paying for Japan defense. Furthermore,Japan is still paying for its defeat at WWII, thanks to the treaties it was obliged to sign in order to maintain the integrity of the country. In those treaties was established the inmediate disarment of Japan an the military ocupation of the U.S. (and evidently the “americanization” of Japan)
During the Cold War, Japan was one of the strategic points in the contention of the communism (both China and the URSS) in the “East Front”. This is the reason why the military bases in Japan have prevailed until nowadays.
In fact, there’s a serious dicussion inside the “Diet” (japanese parliament)about the necessity o not of this U.S. bases in Japan’s territory. In the other hand… it is obvious that U.S government is not willing to leave this strategic point (due the presence of China and North Korea)in their “Fight against the Terrorism”.
About the specific case mencioned in this post… all can I say is: leave the law leads to the truth.
Also, if I want to post political stuffs, I will. The whole point of blogging is to express yourself, your view, your hobby, etc. isn’t it ?
Việt,
I really appreciate all the great music and videos you make available here. Thanks a lot!
Would it be possible to post a collection of Vietnamese covers of English/American pop/rock songs?
- Akira
What is the point of this story here? Do you think that your visitors can’t figure out how to get news from Japan?
For the ignoramuses and bigots who commented above, and for others reading, the story states:
“A U.S. serviceman has been arrested for the ALLEGED sexual assault of a Japanese woman.”
ALLEGED.
Yes, even under Japanese law (under the liberal constitution enacted thanks to the US occupation forces, which also enfranchised Japanese women) criminal suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty.
Furthermore, any sane and honest Japanese woman or foreign woman in Japan can tell you that Japanese trains, elevators, etc etc are just crawling with disgusting Japanese perverts — groping, grasping, raping, harassing, stealing underwear, taking “upskirt” photos and videos, putting cameras in toilets and changing rooms, kidnapping and murdering Japanese women. Is that not news?
Re: “Why do Japanese put up with US troops
on their land?”
- Because the US is paying for Japan’s defense, giving Japan the luxury of pretending that they don’t have an army, and providing Japan with it’s “nuclear umbrella.” And because every community close to a US base makes a massive profit out of having the US military there. The bottom line: Japan WANTS the US military there. Otherwise they’d be gone.
The commentators above who claim to be American seem to be unaware of (a) life, (b) society, (c) history, and (d) civil rights.
To the administrator(s) here: do you really want to open your website to political debate? Are you sure?
- Akira
I completely agree with the above statements. I’m an American, but I would personally kick these guys asses (pardon my language), I think it’s completely terrible, and I believe it’s because they are American they think they can get away with it. That makes me angry though, such idiots. ~D
Dang, why can’t Americans just stop f’ing around and do their jobs?! I had friends in the US Army that used to tell me about the idiots in their units and how those guys would do stupid things while in Korea.
It’s very obvious that many young Americans do NOT understand and/or respect Asians and their cultures.
Not all Americans are bad people, but it only takes one to ruin the reputation for ev’one. I’m embarrassed to say I’m proud to be an American when my fellow countrymen our doing such shameful and disrespectful crap as this! >.<
Japan should boot US troops back to Amerika
or Iraq. Why do Japanese put up with US troops
on their land?