Jpn woman (20) missing in Okinawa; US military suspect

[Wage Slave]

Looks like they've realised that saying it was absolutely nothing to do with us was a mistake:

“We should not be out shooting fireworks. We should not be out having large celebrations and parties while the Okinawan people are in mourning. If we really believe we are part of the Okinawan community, then we too must be in mourning. And we do,” Lt Gen Lawrence Nicholson said at a news conference at a US base in Okinawa.

The 30,000 US troops will not be allowed to drink alcohol off-base, and visiting clubs and bars is prohibited. Upcoming festivals and concerts on bases are being postponed until later in the summer. The restrictions took effect on Friday and will last until 24 June.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/28/us-military-imposes-restrictions-on-okinawa-troops-after

[kurogane]

Looks like they've realised that saying it was absolutely nothing to do with us was a mistake:

“.........If we really believe we are part of the Okinawan community, then we too must be in mourning. And we do,” Lt Gen Lawrence Nicholson said at a news conference at a US base in Okinawa.

I think that are a nice sentiment and it does

Good for them. A well thought out accommodation, at least.

[matsuki]

Nice sentiment but I think the R's will keep a rollin'

[Samurai_Jerk]

What a BS link. It would help if they would stop fucking blabbing and explain what happened to the Russian girl. What a bunch of inflammatory rubbish.

Troll level 0. Try harder, dude.

[kurogane]

Not really. I want a clear statement of WTF the issue is within 20 secs or I'm out. That jumpy jerky back and forth editing they use is maddening.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Not really. I want a clear statement of WTF the issue is within 20 secs or I'm out. That jumpy jerky back and forth editing they use is maddening.

I'm talking about your characterization of Catherine Fisher as "a scraggy blond Baltic woman providing expert commentary on Japanese domestic affairs" and then a "Russian girl."

[matsuki]

These "victims" and their relatives are mad that their monetary settlements are mostly coming from the J-gov? That's it?

[Mike Oxlong]

US Navy officer arrested for drunk driving in Okinawa

A U.S. Navy officer was arrested Sunday on suspicion of drunk driving in Okinawa, where a U.S. base worker’s alleged involvement in the death of a local woman last month has sparked anger among residents.

The incident prompted Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida to lodge a protest with U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy. The Defense Ministry also protested to Lt Gen Lawrence Nicholson, the U.S. military commander in Okinawa.

The Okinawa prefectural police arrested 21-year-old Aimee Mejia, a petty officer 2nd class stationed at the U.S. Kadena base.

She is suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol in the town of Kadena late Saturday, crossing into the opposite lane and colliding with two vehicles, the police said.

A 35-year-old woman in one of the vehicles struck by the suspect’s car suffered a broken breast bone and a 30-year-old man in the other vehicle got a bruise to his arm. The suspect was unhurt.

Mejia’s alcohol reading in a breath test was six times the level allowed by law, according to the police.

The incident came after the U.S. forces in Okinawa in late May imposed a midnight curfew and alcohol ban off base for about a month following the arrest of Kenneth Franklin Shinzato, a former Marine and a worker at the Kadena base, on suspicion of dumping the body of the 20-year-old woman.

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani, who is currently visiting Singapore, told reporters that the latest incident, coming despite the measures to tighten discipline among U.S. military personnel in Okinawa, is “extremely regrettable.”

Japan will continue to urge U.S. forces to ensure that all personnel stationed in Japan abide by Japanese laws, Nakatani said.

http://www.japantoday.com/smartphone/vi ... in-okinawa

[matsuki]

Dumb girl...what is the penalty for violating the curfew?

[Mike Oxlong]

She didn't. She did drive drunk and cause an accident injuring two others. This during a period of reflection with no off-base liquor purchasing nor consumption.

Result...lockdown.

[Takechanpoo]

i guess the us mil guys inside okinawa bases have been accumulating stress so much. once some of them commit a crime, the many others have to take a j-style collective responsibility. that bitch almost deliberately went drunken drive to repel it. on the other hand, my neighboring us mil guys of yokota air base freely go in and out the base.
abolishing SOFA and relocating some of the bases out of okinawa is a must to be done as soon as possible.

[matsuki]

She didn't. She did drive drunk and cause an accident injuring two others. This during a period of reflection with no off-base liquor purchasing nor consumption.

Result...lockdown.

I meant violating the off base liquor ordinance...I'm sure she'll get an ass kicking but I wonder what the military will do to her.

[Mike Oxlong]

i guess the us mil guys inside okinawa bases have been accumulating stress so much. once some of them commit a crime, the many others have to take a j-style collective responsibility. that bitch almost deliberately went drunken drive to repel it. on the other hand, my neighboring us mil guys of yokota air base freely go in and out the base.
abolishing SOFA and relocating some of the bases out of okinawa is a must to be done as soon as possible.

It's interesting that the SOFA is there to circumvent the Japanese legal system, and yet they act all Japanese in their punitive measures often enough. Last time there was a lockdown like this (as opposed to merely earlier and/or longer curfews) was in 2008, when US Marine Staff Sergeant went and lured a 14-year-old girl into his car and raped her.

[wagyl]

... and all the bars outside the camp gates suffer as a result.

[Mike Oxlong]

Yep, almost like they are sticking it to the Okis for having the nerve to complain.

[wagyl]

It does give them practice at experiencing the paradise that is Okinawa without US Bases.

[kurogane]

It's interesting that the SOFA is there to circumvent the Japanese legal system, and yet they act all Japanese in their punitive measures often enough. Last time there was a lockdown like this (as opposed to merely earlier and/or longer curfews) was in 2008, when US Marine Staff Sergeant went and lured a 14-year-old girl into his car and raped her.

I remember that one..........I was in Ishigaki. Everybody claimed she was wearing a short skirt and a form fitting turtleneck, and we were all like, WTF

[Mike Oxlong]

It does give them practice at experiencing the paradise that is Okinawa without US Bases.

LOL. The alternate universe paradise with 20% of the land fenced in and off limits, just fewer aliens milling about town picking fights at the cantena.

[Samurai_Jerk]

and yet they act all Japanese in their punitive measures often enough.

You've got it backwards. Collective punishment is standard practice in the military and always has been. The Japanese act all military in their punitive measures.

US Navy bans alcohol for sailors in Japan

The U.S. Navy banned drinking and restricted off-base activity Monday for its personnel in Japan after a sailor was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving on the island of Okinawa in the latest incident where suspected criminal activity has sparked public anger.

[wagyl]

... and Sasebo suffers (article in Japanese, via Mulboyne)

[wagyl]

It does give them practice at experiencing the paradise that is Okinawa without US Bases.

LOL. The alternate universe paradise with 20% of the land fenced in and off limits, just fewer aliens milling about town picking fights at the cantena.

I was actually more thinking of the ironical paradise without the economic benefits of the bases. Of course, this is just the economic effects on the bar industry, they still need to use their imaginations to create the paradise without rents to landowners for base land, ancillary civilian jobs on the bases, etc.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I bet Aimee Mejia ain't got a lot of friends on base right now.

[Mike Oxlong]

It does give them practice at experiencing the paradise that is Okinawa without US Bases.

LOL. The alternate universe paradise with 20% of the land fenced in and off limits, just fewer aliens milling about town picking fights at the cantena.

I was actually more thinking of the ironical paradise without the economic benefits of the bases. Of course, this is just the economic effects on the bar industry, they still need to use their imaginations to create the paradise without rents to landowners for base land, ancillary civilian jobs on the bases, etc.

Point taken, and since there are enough pragmatic locals to see it too, unified opposition to bases is a pipe dream.

[matsuki]

The Japanese act all military in (too many ways)

FTFY

[yanpa]

The Japanese act all military in (too many ways)

FTFY

Not like the US then

[matsuki]

The Japanese act all military in (too many ways)

FTFY

Not like the US then

I don't like that shit either...but....

[Mike Oxlong]

Hopes for a Gumo-like slap-on-the-wrist fade for Kenef. That confession is gonna be hard to walk back, no matter what his law-talking-guy sez...

Rape-murder warrant set to be served to U.S. Okinawa base worker over woman’s slaying

Police in Okinawa plan to serve a fresh arrest warrant on a detained civilian U.S. base worker on suspicion of rape and murder on Thursday in connection with the death of a 20-year-old local woman in April, investigative sources said Tuesday.

Kenneth Franklin Shinzato, a 32-year-old former U.S. Marine, has been initially arrested for allegedly dumping the body of the victim, and Thursday is the deadline for his detention over the initial charge.

The further move is envisioned by the police at a time when the crime has ignited anger among citizens in Okinawa, home to the bulk of U.S. military facilities in Japan, sparking many protests in the island prefecture and sending U.S. and Japanese officials into crisis mode.

The sources said Shinzato is alleged to have raped the woman in a grassy field on a roadside in Uruma, Okinawa, on the night of April 28 before killing her. The victim had gone for a walk at the time.

Shinzato was arrested on May 19 on suspicion of dumping her body in a wooded area in the village of Onna, also in Okinawa, sometime between April 28 and 29.

The former Marine, who worked at the U.S. Kadena Air Base in the prefecture, told investigators he had hit the woman on the head from behind and stabbed her multiple times.

Shinzato also said he abandoned the body in the wooded area after the victim stopped moving, according to the sources.

The police have confirmed multiple traces on the bones of the victim’s torso that are believed to have been caused by the impact of a blade, the sources said.

On his smartphone, Shinzato had also kept an image showing on the victim’s smartphone of a social networking site linked to her, the sources said.

The police identified the grassy area in Uruma as the spot where the killing is believed to have occurred after analyzing the location information embedded in the image and other information.

The police now allege Shinzato assaulted the woman around 10 p.m. on April 28, taking into consideration security footage obtained around the site. They found an earphone belonging to the victim in the undergrowth, according to the sources.

Although Shinzato stopping talking shortly after his arrest, the police have determined they can bring a murder charge against him using circumstantial evidence, the sources said.

The victim’s corpse was found on May 19 after the police searched the wooded area in Onna based on Shinzato’s statement.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/0 ... s-slaying/

[matsuki]

Hopes for a Gumo-like slap-on-the-wrist fade for Kenef. That confession is gonna be hard to walk back, no matter what his law-talking-guy sez...

As much disdain as I have for the statement taking procedures here, the dude pointed them right to the body...

he had hit the woman on the head from behind and stabbed her multiple times.

The things that turn people on....

[matsuki]

June 17, 2016

This message is being issued to alert U.S. citizens living in, or traveling to Japan that the Embassy has received information that on Sunday, June 19, 2016, a large-scale protest and rally is planned at the Ohnoyama General Athletic Field at the Ohnoyoma Park and sports complex in central Naha, Okinawa.

According to information received, organizers plan to bring several tens of thousands of protestors to Ohnoyama General Athletic Field, to protest the U.S. military presence on Okinawa. The Ohnoyama Park and sports complex is located in central Naha, approximately 2.5 miles east of Naha Airport and less than 2 miles south west of “Kokusai Dori,” a major tourist and shopping destination in Naha.

The protest and rally is expected to last for one hour, and is scheduled from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM. As the Ohnoyama Park and sports complex is located on Route 331, a major artery leading from Naha Airport to downtown Naha, disruptions in traffic are possible throughout the duration of the protest.


Additional rallies may be held in 30 prefectures throughout Japan during the three-day period of June 17–19.

Even demonstrations intended to be peaceful can turn confrontational and escalate into violence. You should avoid areas of demonstrations and exercise caution if in the vicinity of any large gatherings, protests, or demonstrations.

[Mike Oxlong]

I have seen a lot of panicky posts on FB from US military dependents who seem to think that these swarthy Okinawans are culturally similar to swarthy peoples in areas they occupy and/or bomb the shit out of on a semi-regular basis. Looks like mitsuki is one of them.