⚖️ Demanding Justice: Shocking Crime Stats Linked to U.S. Troops in Japan 🇯🇵🇺🇸

4/23/2025

📢 Public outrage is growing in Japan.
This report dives deep into the alarming crime statistics involving U.S. military personnel stationed in Japan, raising serious questions about accountability, justice, and the strain on U.S.-Japan relations.

In this eye-opening video:
🔹 Breakdown of the latest crime numbers linked to U.S. troops
🔹 Local response and rising demands for legal accountability
🔹 How these incidents are impacting diplomatic and military ties
🔹 Real voices from affected communities
🔹 Will justice finally be served — or swept under the rug?

💥 A must-watch for anyone concerned with international military ethics and foreign policy consequences.

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Transcript

00:00Japanese police and American troops are set to resume joint patrols in Okinawa for the first time in 50 years.

00:08But it's actually prompted public outrage after numerous instances of sex assault cases involving service members in Japan.

00:15We had a chance to speak to a human rights advocate, Catherine Jane Fisher, who she herself was a victim of rape decades ago.

00:21What inspired me to be the first woman to break the silence in Japan was that I knew that there were so many cases that had happened since, you know, 80 years ago.

00:34So this is the scroll that I have been taking with me for the past 23 years.

00:39It's from the Okinawa Women Act Against Violence.

00:43And you can see these are the list of crimes that have been happening.

00:47And it's very wide.

00:54So many crimes that have been happening.

00:58This is only 1947.

01:04So I actually started writing them on sheets because you can see these sheets here.

01:14Because I would like to, my message, because I'm also an artist, my message is to say,

01:22how can people sleep at night knowing how many crimes have happened?

01:26And they haven't changed the status of forces agreement.

01:28They need to change that.

01:30I actually did an artwork which was at Shibuya Station last month.

01:38And about two moon people will walk past that every day.

01:42And the title of that was called Yumiko-chan, 1955.

01:47And Yumiko, she was six years old.

01:52And she was kidnapped, raped, mutilated, and thrown in the trash.

01:59So these victims are not mere numbers.

02:04They had a name.

02:07They were somebody's wife, somebody's daughter, somebody's son, somebody's child.

02:14And they all deserve justice.

02:18And we must not allow these crimes to continue any longer.

02:24The numbers coming out of Japan are really disturbing because, what, over 200,000 crimes

02:29involving U.S. troops have been recorded on Japanese soil in, what, just over, what, 70 years?

02:34It's a huge jump from the post-war era when about 200 were recorded over a decade.

02:41Now let's take a closer look at the circumstances surrounding Catherine Jane Fisher's case

02:44because she reported that she was raped by a U.S. Navy sailor in 2002.

02:51After reporting the incident, though, she was declared, excuse me, detained in a local police station, I should say,

02:57subjected to, what, over 12 hours of interrogation?

03:00The alleged assailant was allowed to leave the country before he was due to appear in a Tokyo court.

03:05Catherine Jane is the only victim who has actually spoken out since being raped.

03:09The rape against me by the United States military servicemen impacted my life terribly.

03:17I think it had a really long-term impact, mentally, financially, and physically.

03:28In respect of my own healing, I will not go into graphic details about what happened to me, how I was raped.

03:35But in the aftermath of the rape, I was treated like an animal by the Japanese police and without any respect.

03:45And my case exposed the flaws in the system and how United States military victims are treated in Japan

03:57by both the Japanese government and the American military.

03:59I am the only rape victim that has been speaking up since 2002.

04:05No other victim has had the courage to speak out.

04:10And if you can imagine, I'm being followed by secret police, I have to fight, you have to look for the rapist by yourself.

04:17I mean, what victim could actually do that?

04:21It's terrible.

04:23Well, Washington has expressed regret over what happened and says it now tracks the cases of U.S. military personnel accused of committing sexual crimes.

04:33Now, this comes while Japan still remains home to, what, 54,000 U.S. soldiers.

04:39Catherine Jane, though, isn't convinced the resumed patrols are really going to change much.

04:43She says the pact under which American troops are deployed in Japan is one-sided.

04:47She says it doesn't actually protect ordinary citizens.

04:50The governments will say, this should never have happened.

04:56And we keep on hearing the same things over and over again.

05:00I keep on telling them that if they change Article 16, it will end this violence.

05:06So if they know of something that will end the violence, then why don't they try to amend the State of the Forces Agreement?

05:15It's because they don't want to.

05:19And what needs to be done is to change the State of the Forces Agreement, because that is not protecting us.

05:25It's one-sided.

05:26It's protecting the United States military.

05:29I question where does the United States military and the Japanese government stand?

05:35Are they on the side with the victims or on the side with the perpetrators and the rapists, so they don't stand with us, so they're on the other side?