Regarding whether Japanese want the Americans to be in Japan, a recent poll taken shows that 80% of JNs favor the alliance with the US, while 73% believe it's important for the US to be stationed in Asia, and 67% believing that it's important for the US to maintain bases in Japan. That said, it's pretty obvious that most Japanese favor the US bases out here. (I tried to post the link to this survey, but was denied as I don't have enough posts yet.)
And as far as crime committed by US servicemen, I was interested in finding out what exactly the truth was behind that. Recently, my base had an incident where a couple of our sailors had a drunk driving head-on collision with a family of four. The CO of our base apologized to the family on television, and here on base we took a lot of flak regarding drunk driving. After speaking with the Japanese we have working here (I'm a corpsman working in a medical clinic), I got the impression that Americans were lawless hethens who couldn't be controlled. So I decided to look up the facts for myself.
Americans commit the least amount of crime per capita (.016%) than any other national group in Japan. Lower than Thais (.051%), Russians (.271%), Chinese (.428%), and even Japanese (.291%) themselves. So arguing that American troops commit too many crimes, or that we're 'undisciplined' is an invalid argument, considering we're the most disciplined in the country.
And as far as crime committed by US servicemen, I was interested in finding out what exactly the truth was behind that. Recently, my base had an incident where a couple of our sailors had a drunk driving head-on collision with a family of four. The CO of our base apologized to the family on television, and here on base we took a lot of flak regarding drunk driving. After speaking with the Japanese we have working here (I'm a corpsman working in a medical clinic), I got the impression that Americans were lawless hethens who couldn't be controlled. So I decided to look up the facts for myself.
Americans commit the least amount of crime per capita (.016%) than any other national group in Japan. Lower than Thais (.051%), Russians (.271%), Chinese (.428%), and even Japanese (.291%) themselves. So arguing that American troops commit too many crimes, or that we're 'undisciplined' is an invalid argument, considering we're the most disciplined in the country.
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