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Okinawa Rape Case Reignites Anti-US Ire

Citing discipline lack, angry Japanese want less military presence

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 14, 2008 4:21 PM CST

(Newser) – The arrest this week of a US Marine on charges of raping a 14-year-old girl on the Japanese island of Okinawa has stirred long-simmering resentment of the nearly 50,000 American troops stationed there, Reuters reports. “Considering that such vicious, atrocious incidents have never...   Read full story »

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