Its no secret that were here, and its no secret that people commit crimes, but the big secret that everyone isn’t let in on is the ratio of DOD personel crimes to overall crime in Japan, which is extremely low. Yea there are only a fraction of DOD personel stationed in Japan, and yea most people would schewe those numbers to show that we are a bunch of war-mongering, child-raping thugs, but the reality of it all is that those few people that commit these unspeakable crimes aren’t the many. And it doesn’t help that our country that we serve dishonor us as individuals and prosecute us anyways even though all charges were dropped against the person.

Something you guys should know about the Japanese legal system too, is that they will keep you in prison until they build a strong enough case against you to make sure you don’t walk away. So if they dropped charges against that Marine thats got to tell you something (to spell it out for some of the people that I read comments from: They don’t have a case.).

Someone previously stated, hey lets just go home. I’ve been saying that to every Japanese that protest against us. Why don’t you just vote us out of here and end the issue. Well I get the bottom-dweller look of stupidity from the individuals I say that to. Yes, all those young protestors would be donning the uniform of the Japanese Military and doing their time in boot camp rather than being the shut in, no life, Otaku’s that many seem to be. The Tokyo government would have to spend 10 times their current defense spending budget and wait 5-10 years for all the gear to get built Ships planes etc….. and still we’d have to come along and wave Ole Glory in the China sea to say hey, don’t beat up our little brother Japan while they build up to Superpower status. In the mean time, the 7th fleet would go to Guam and Hawaii, and San Diego while Guam is built up to be the replacement forward base. Oh did you know it would take about 2 billion buck to Apra Harbor(Guam) and shore facilities up to snuff to handle what is already built up here in Japan. So naturally, the USFJ knows it could get kicked out of Japan (like it did in the PI) on some whimsical public relations BS. And in order to complete the mission the 7th flt is tasked with doing it would have to spend billions getting Guam ready. Now flip that over and look at it from the Japanese gov side. A vast expansion of the Japanese military would cost billions more, and require the Japanese youth to be inducted into the military. Something they’ve not had to do involuntarily in defense of their country since 1945. Which ever political party has to implement that will suffer the first casualties. And let’s not forget Japanese pride. Pride I’d equate to that little yep,yep dog that acts like a big dog by barking at anyone that’ll listen. They will throw themselves blindly into the sea holding bamboo sticks to fight back the the N.Koreans and Chinese……..Nah… I think the black van guys will go into hiding and the Japanese left standing will run back under Uncle Sam’s skirt. I love this country. But they really need to grow up, or get some leaders with balls like Tojo.

I don’t think the answer is to abandon Japan entirely, but like you said in your earlier post, to weed out individuals that cause trouble through more intensive overseas screenings. Japan is a valuable ally, strategically, for all of the reasons you stated above, leaving them entirely would not only leave them defenseless, but would also leave us without early warning/counterstrike abilities should China ever decide to try and wipe us off the map.

On a side note…did you read about the Japanese guy who was arrested for spitting hot coffee on schoolgirls? The papers were calling him “Coffee Bukkake Man”.

These were my exact thoughts 2 years ago….you guys get my angst now…

And I always thought it was caused by the blurry blue dot on the screen in Japanese porn movies………