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のでしょう。
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Another Serviceman Arrested in Okinawa
By Doug Struck
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, January 11, 2001 ; Page A22
TOKYO, Jan. 11 (Thursday) -- One week after authorities ended the curfew
on
American servicemen imposed to curb sexual assaults, Japanese police
have
arrested a U.S. Marine in Okinawa on suspicion of lifting a high school
girl's skirt and taking a picture.
Police said the Marine corporal, Raven W. Gogol, 21, was
suspected of
sneaking up on a 16-year-old girl as she sat in a flower bed, lifting
her
skirt to take a photograph, and molesting her.
He was detained by police who found him arguing with local
residents at
thesite about 30 minutes later.
Gogol has denied the indecency charge brought against
him, according to
Okinawan police spokesman Takaharu Shimada.
A series of alleged assaults by young American servicemen
on women and
girls in Okinawa has inflamed the long-running controversy over the
presence
of about 32,000 U.S. military personnel on the island.
On Wednesday, the U.S. military apologized for the incident,
but
Okinawans have become critical of American assurances that such incidents
will not happen again.
"I have to say the U.S. forces have been unsuccessful
in addressing [the
issue of] servicemen's morals, and have not learned from the history
we have
had," Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine said in a statement.
"A mere apology for such incidents means nothing. Unless
the military
presence is reduced, we will see similar tragedies," Suzuyo Takazato,
a
member of an Okinawan civic group fighting to remove the U.S. bases,
told
Kyodo News Service.
But the local response has not been uniform. A curfew
on late-night
drinking by U.S. troops in Okinawa was lifted last week, in part at
the
request of local drinking establishments that had suffered a decline
in
business. The curfew was imposed last July, after a Marine lance corporal
was accused of wandering drunk into the bedroom of a 14-year-old girl
and
molesting her.
Wallace Gregson, the U.S. military's acting Okinawa area
coordinator,
issued an apology Wednesday through the Japanese Foreign Ministry.
"I
apologize from the bottom of my heart. We will once again order thorough
discipline," he said.
U.S. troops have remained in Japan's southernmost prefecture
since
capturing the island in World War II. The bases have become key facilities
from which U.S. troops deploy in Asia. The United
States has promised to relocate some troops to other bases, if suitable
locations can be found, but the Japanese government has long preferred
to
keep the bases on Okinawa.
The issue of U.S. service members' behavior was reignited
for Okinawans
in 1995, when two Marines and a sailor raped a 12-year-old girl, prompting
massive protests against the American presence.
Staff writer Thomas E. Ricks reported from Washington:
Marines say that
the Corps continues to have problems in Okinawa because three factors
converge there.
First, because the Marine Corps is so heavily oriented
toward infantry
and other combat jobs, personnel in those units tend to be younger
and have
more run-ins with authorities.
Also, Marines on Okinawa are far from home, sometimes
for the first time
in their lives.
Finally, to save money, enlisted personnel serve there
on one-year
"unaccompanied tours." Married personnel leave spouses in the United
States.
Retired Marine Col. Gary Anderson, who commanded the Marines'
Camp Hansen
on Okinawa from 1996 through 1998, said he doesn't think the crime
rate
among Marines there is unusually high, but he said every incident is
publicized by Japanese politicians opposed to the U.S. military presence.
"It gets a lot of publicity, especially because there's
a political
agenda of people who don't like Americans over there," he said.
(c) 2001 The Washington Post
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