Will the guilty US marines ever be brought to book?
This is not the first time that an American marine is accused of raping a local girl in Japan's Okinawa base camp – that houses nearly half of the 50,000 
US troops stationed in the country. And as in the past, it is unlikely that the furore that followed the February 10 incident will cause the guilty to be nailed.
The popular perception is that the Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), which alone is empowered to deal with such problems, exists solely to protect US interests. For instance when, soon after the February 10 incident, Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima called for revising SOFA, Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura countered with familiar evasions. He told the Diet four days later that the act, if "properly implemented", would do the job as well as any other measure being proposed by critics of Japan's post-World War II Constitution. Article 9 calls for Japan to be a "pacifist, non-war-making country" – and leaves the task of defending it to the US..........Continue
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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US troops stationed in the country. And as in the past, it is unlikely that the furore that followed the February 10 incident will cause the guilty to be nailed.The popular perception is that the Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), which alone is empowered to deal with such problems, exists solely to protect US interests. For instance when, soon after the February 10 incident, Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima called for revising SOFA, Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura countered with familiar evasions. He told the Diet four days later that the act, if "properly implemented", would do the job as well as any other measure being proposed by critics of Japan's post-World War II Constitution. Article 9 calls for Japan to be a "pacifist, non-war-making country" – and leaves the task of defending it to the US..........Continue
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
Read also :-
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