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Japan has protested to the US after another incident in Okinawa allegedly involving a member of the US military.
A US serviceman reportedly entered an apartment above a bar and hit a teenage boy. The man fell from a window and was taken to hospital, local reports said.
The Foreign Ministry lodged a complaint with US envoy John Roos, Kyodo said.
The incident comes with all US troops in Japan under a night-time curfew following an alleged rape.
The US has some 26,000 troops based on Okinawa, where crimes involving service personnel have become a source of ongoing tension.
'Trespassing'
Local reports said that the serviceman, who had been drinking, hit a 13-year-old boy after entering his room.
"Let me be absolutely clear. I am very upset, it's an understatement to say I am very upset with the reported incident in Okinawa," Mr Roos said, after he was summoned to the Foreign Ministry.
"Police are investigating the case, in which the man could be charged for trespassing, injury and destruction of property," a local police spokesman was quoted by Agence-France Presse news agency as saying.
He added that the man was still at a US military hospital and that police would be requesting custody.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20177028
Note: 2 November 2012 Last updated at 08:44 GMT
Kazuaki Shimazaki II
11-03-12, 09:08 AM
This doesn't make sense. US man hits Japanese boy, and the man winds up flying out the window and into the hospital?
em2nought
11-03-12, 09:55 AM
If we utilized comfort women we probably wouldn't have these problems with the Japanese. :D
This doesn't make sense. US man hits Japanese boy, and the man winds up flying out the window and into the hospital?
Yeah it sounds like there is more to the story here.
Jimbuna
11-03-12, 12:04 PM
Yeah it sounds like there is more to the story here.
Could be the boy was a young Bruce Lee type :)
Tribesman
11-03-12, 12:09 PM
Could be the boy was a young Bruce Lee type :)
Or the more obvious situation where he fell trying to get out the window to avoid the people in the bar downstairs.
Platapus
11-03-12, 12:38 PM
This doesn't make sense. US man hits Japanese boy, and the man winds up flying out the window and into the hospital?
Yeah it sounds like there is more to the story here.
Man you guy are dumb.
Okinawa is about 2,000km from Guam. Gographicaologically that's pretty close. :yep:
If Guam can tip over due to troop changes
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/guamtip.asp
Ain't it possible that Okinawa might have shifted when this US troop was standing by an open window??????
Who knows, maybe a bunch of fat navy guys suddenly went in to an Okinawan Dunkin Donuts at the same time and causes a slight shift on Okinawa.
If it could happen on Guam, it could happen on Okinawa.
A congressman could not be wrong about something like this.
:D
Guam can tip over? How disconcerting! :o
Platapus
11-03-12, 01:29 PM
Guam can tip over? How disconcerting! :o
Would a congressman ever make a statement that is not backed up by scientific fact???????
Well, to be fair, the Japanese in Okinawa have been trying to bring aircraft down on themselves lately...
No...seriously...
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/okinawans-use-kites-to-protest-against-osprey-aircraft
You can bet when the first Osprey goes into an apartment block with a kite around its prop then they'll say that it was the bad safety record of the Osprey that was at fault, not the fact that they are essentially trying to knock down US aircraft. :nope:
Kptlt. Neuerburg
11-03-12, 09:24 PM
It wouldn't surprize me that the kid knew some form of martial arts considering that three forms of martial arts come from Okinawa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawan_martial_arts
CaptainMattJ.
11-04-12, 01:57 AM
Well, to be fair, the Japanese in Okinawa have been trying to bring aircraft down on themselves lately...
No...seriously...
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/okinawans-use-kites-to-protest-against-osprey-aircraft
You can bet when the first Osprey goes into an apartment block with a kite around its prop then they'll say that it was the bad safety record of the Osprey that was at fault, not the fact that they are essentially trying to knock down US aircraft. :nope:
The opposition is extremely over-hyped. the V-22, if kept maintained, performs safely and the soldiers flying it trust it. I think the people who actually fly the things have the most relevant opinion, rather than time magazine or the Okinawan people or these civies who are going based off circumstantial accidents that occurred because of pilot error or poor maintenance.
The Moroccan crash was reported to be because of pilot error, not because of the plane. I don't understand why people don't trust it. it is a remarkable aircraft, that statistically crashes less or on par with traditional helicopters and planes.
As for the story, it doesn't very complete. I don't think the man flew out the window of his own volition.
Could be the boy was a young Bruce Lee type :) :O:
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