PNN – The people of Japan, who suffered serious injuries from the presence of the United States forces in their country, this time held a protest rally against the sexual violence of the American military personnel.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, quoting Xinhua, Japanese citizens reacted and protested in front of the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of their country in Tokyo to the sexual violence of American military personnel stationed in this country.
On Friday, the Naha District Court sentenced a US Air Force soldier to five years in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a Japanese girl under the age of 16 in Okinawa in December 2023.
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Protesters in the city of Tokyo condemned the action of the American soldier, declaring that his sexual violence was intolerable and that five years in prison was too little compared to the suffering the victim endured.
They also criticized the central government and the Japanese police for failing to provide information related to the case to the Okinawa state government. The protesters demanded the accountability of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan due to the secrecy in the details of this case.
Criminal activity in Japan involving US military personnel is a long-standing problem. According to Okinawa prefecture statistics, nearly 6,200 crime cases involving US military personnel and their dependents have been registered in the prefecture from 1972 to 2023, including serious crimes such as murder, rape and robbery.