（日本語）
在日米軍の「綱紀粛正」声明は、聞き飽きた！−米兵の少女暴行事件に抗議し、米軍基地撤去を求める！
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（英語）
Enough of the U.S. Military statement promising strict discipline! ? We protest against the rape case conducted by a U.S. Marine on an Okinawan girl and demand removal of the Military Base!
Japan currently has eighty-seven U.S. Military Bases, all exclusive-use facilities. They accompany 2,000 soldiers for the Army, 16,000 for the Marine Corps, 6,000 for the Navy and 13,000 for the Air Force, which means nearly 50,000 U.S. forces are stationed in Japan including 13,000 on the Seventh fleet on the sea. We are the only country outside of the U.S. which possesses full lineup of four forces, which are Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, together with its headquarters, and that is why we are serving as the biggest deployment base in their West Pacific operation. The U.S. warships and Marine Corps including carriers were dispatched for the Iraqi war from these bases, making us a linchpin for their worldwide military presence. The total number of incidents and accidents caused by the U.S. soldiers in Japan from 1952, when the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty was enacted, to 2006 adds up to 204,785 cases with the death toll of 1,081 Japanese citizens, involving every part of the country. Over ninety percent of the ‘Raid Unit’ or those Marines who are the first to be sent to battle fields are stationed in Okinawa and they are the main source for atrocious crimes. Out of 991 U.S. Military-caused criminal arrests between 1995 and 2006, 473 or forty-eight percent took place in Okinawa. The island has 10,748 U.S. Military-related personnel living outside of their bases and they do not have to have their residents registered, which allow them to take sanctuary in a base when commit a crime. The Japanese Police cannot even arrest them under the current Status of Forces Agreement, which is extremely unfair. Therefore, the whole island practically functions as their base, whereas some of the Okinawan residents are not allowed to visit their family graves since they are located in the base sites. The Los Angeles Times says 2,947 sex crimes were reported to have been committed within U.S. Military. Calculation tells us they have more than eight such cases a day. A simple explanation is that U.S. soldiers violently force woman to be ‘sex slaves.’ Wars take both reason and intellect away from humans and drive them into insanity.
February 10 this year, a Marine, who was a non-base resident, raped a local girl. On the very next day we saw a taxi robbery committed by another Marine, followed by an assault on a Filipina residing in Okinawa the week after. Some other Marines were reportedly arrested for house-breaking or driving while intoxicated within several days. There is a growing anti-U.S. Military sentiment among those Japanese who are exposed to danger, fearing U.S. soldiers and Military-related accidents. They have come to realize that they can never be free from these problems as long as U.S. Military forces stay there with them.
In the Okinawa citizen’s protest rally denouncing the rape case in 1995, a high school student stated; ‘…Please give us back the quiet Okinawa. Please give us back the peaceful island, without military bases, without tragedy.’ Since then on, U.S. Military has been repeating the same phrase, ‘enforcement of strict discipline,’ while Japanese government promising to ‘deter recurrence’ of such cases, both of which never seem to have worked. The same clich?s were given ever again to Okinawan people this time. Of course, however, that can convince nobody. The citizens have come to feel that their own government is partly guilty for this problem. Because it came to surface through the history that the very source of crimes is nothing but the presence of U.S. Military who believe in conqueror’s advantage. One can easily predict similar cases will be repeated unless U.S. Marine Corps are removed and the Military bases reduced if not eliminated.
U.S. government has announced that a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of 97,000t, ‘the George Washington’ will be deployed next August to Yokosuka. Since we have seen several nuclear accidents in the past, we can not simply believe ‘safety myths’ provided by the both governments. If the vessel is stationed in the harbor as long as half of a year, it will surely increase the danger of radiation. This deployment means Yokosuka will be their homeground to ‘launch raids’ from on every corner of the world. It will expose Yokosuka citizens as well as thirty million people living in the metropolitan Tokyo area to the danger of a nuclear accident. We have to say ‘No’ to this deployment of the carrier as it can lead to nuclear-powered vessels constantly visiting Japanese ports in the future. In Yokosuka, citizens have successfully conducted a local referendum calling the deployment in question and are actively working together in order to protect themselves from the danger of radiation. Japan is the only nation in the world that has experienced the terror of atomic bombs and radiation. An opinion poll shows 72% of us say ‘No’ to the manifest of the present administration, which is trying to amend Article 9 of the Constitution so that Japan can participate in the U.S. war operation, or in other words, can fight in any wars.