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RE: the last paragraph. When I lived in Japan in the 1990s, a Marine and US Navy sailor in Okinawa raped a girl about 12 years old. I was working as an elementary school teacher at the time, and everyone knew I was a Navy veteran. Imagine how I felt.

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US Marines start partial transfer from Japan's Okinawa to Guam

by Associated Press

TOKYO --

The partial transfer of U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam began on
Saturday, 12 years after Japan and the United States agreed on their
realignment to reduce the heavy burden of American troop presence on
the southern Japanese island, officials said.

The relocation started with 100 members of III Marine Expeditionary
Force stationed on Okinawa moving to the Pacific island for the initial
logistical work, the U.S. Marine Corps and Japan's Defense Ministry
said in a joint statement.

Under the plan agreed between Tokyo and Washington in April 2012, about
9,000 of the 19,000 Marines currently stationed on Okinawa are to be
moved out of Okinawa, including about 4,000 of them to be moved to the
U.S. territory Guam in phases. Details, including the size and timing
of the next transfer, were not immediately released.

The Marine Corps is committed to the defense of Japan and meeting
operational requirements to maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific, and
it will maintain presence in the region "through a combination of
stationing and rotating Marines in Japan, Guam and Hawaii," the joint
statement said.

Japan has paid up to $2.8 billion for the building of infrastructure at
the U.S. bases on Guam, and the United States will fund the remaining
costs. The two governments will continue to cooperate on the
development of Camp Blaz, which will serve as the main installation for
Marines stationed in Guam.

The Marines and Japan Self Defense Forces will conduct joint training
in Guam, the statement said.

Okinawa, which was under U.S. postwar occupation until 1972, is still
home to a majority of the more than 50,000 American troops based in
Japan under a bilateral security pact, while 70% of U.S. military
facilities are on Okinawa, which accounts for only 0.6% of Japanese
land.

Many Okinawans have long complained about the heavy U.S. military
presence on the island and say Okinawa faces noise, pollution, aircraft
accidents and crime related to American troops.

The relocation is likely to be welcomed by residents, but how much
improvement they will feel is uncertain because of the rapid Japanese
military buildup on Okinawan islands as a deterrence to threats from
China.

The start of the Marines relocation comes at a time of growing
anti-U.S. military sentiment following a series of sexual assault cases
involving American servicemembers.

On Thursday, a senior Air Force servicemember belonging to the Kadena
Air Base was convicted of the kidnapping and sexual assault of a
teenage girl last year, a case that triggered outrage on the island.
The Naha District Court sentenced him to five years in prison.

#us-navy #us-military #bases #okinawa #japan #usa #military #日本 #沖縄 #guam

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https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113637515724587760 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 🪙THE GOLDEN PAVILION🔥

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, & finally destroys.
-Mishima Yukio (三島由紀夫).

In 1950, almost bald of gold & having survived the Ōnin War, Kinkaku-ji was burnt to the ground by Hayashi Yōken, one of its own novice monks.

#京都 #Kyoto #Kinkakuji #金閣寺 #Japan #GoldenPavilion

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https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113625915427192887 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 💌KYŌTO'S CASANOVA❤️‍🔥

Takenaka-jinja (竹中稲荷神社) is a small but beautiful sub-shrine of Yoshida-jinja (吉田神社). Standing on the western summit of Yoshida-yama, the forlorn grounds betray the shrine's vibrant history of dashing poets, civil disorder and butterfly dances.

Most of the shrine records have been lost, but in other works there is mention of a vast, snaking tunnel of shrine gates leading from mountain base to the worship hall.

#autumn #Kyoto #Takenakajinja #竹中稲荷神社 #京都 #Japan

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https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113563708706121491 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 🎇🏮CHINESE LANTERN FESTIVAL🏮🎆

Kyōto has many light-up events during the autumn, but Manpuku-ji's is something to behold.

As one might expect from one of the country's few Chinese-style temples, the colourful lanterns are heavily influenced by festivals on the mainland.

#Kyoto #京都 #Uji #宇治 #Japan #lanternfestival #Manpukuji #萬福寺

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Attached: 4 images 🎇🏮CHINESE LANTERN FESTIVAL🏮🎆 Kyōto has many light-up events during the autumn, but Manpuku-ji's is something to behold. As one might expect from one of the country's few Chinese-style temples, the colourful lanterns are...

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