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submitted 5 months ago by plinky@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

The government expressed "regret" to U.S. Ambassador Rahm Emanuel over the incident and called for stronger oversight of behavior by military personnel, Hayashi said.

"That something like this was done to a minor not only causes great fear to local residents living side-by-side with U.S. bases but tramples on the dignity of women," he told reporters. "The excessive burden of hosting military bases is an everyday matter for us, and is intolerable."

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[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 45 points 5 months ago

the only reason this is news is because someone actually got charged with it

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

My memory is hazy on it but I remember a hexbear poster talking about how U.S. soldiers stationed in Japan started the whole lolicon craze in their pop culture. Am I talking out my ass?

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I remember bringing up "Misora Hibari and the Girl Star in Postwar Japanese Cinema” by Deborah Shamoon in a thread a long time ago

Edited to include link to the full paper - not the abstract only.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

It was probably you and where I was thinking on it, so it was a product of the postwar reconstruction?

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago

I'm not a super smarty academic who has studied this, so take my opinion with a pound of salt.

I'd say many aspects of the lolicon craze in Japan have roots in American culture that rubbed off during the post-war occupation. People see sexualization of children in Japanese media and tend to have this orientalist "oh, Japan berdly-smug" reaction to it while ignoring all the gross parts of their western cultures that also sexualize children.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago

Another day, another rapist... agony-deep

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

All those countries that have been so eager for America to open bases on their soil: here is your future.

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

Hey that's not fair.

They also do a lot of drunk driving

[-] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

We had a burger warship in Stockholm a few years back, and they immediately got caught for prostitution/sexual trafficking.

Don't worry tho, liberals assured me there won't be any American bases or nuclear weapons on Swedish soil. Of course, they're not explicitly forbidden to store nuclear material in Sweden, they even fought to keep the option open, and they have "unlimited unregulated access" to 17 bases here. But it's totally not the same bro, it's different, bro. Trust me, bro.

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

I think I remember that. Around 2014 IIRC. There was a huge bulletin sent out to the whole DoD that they were going to actually be enforcing the anti-prostitution regulations. I was on a ship at the time, and an uncomfortably high number of guys expressed disappointment.

[-] ElGosso@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago
[-] SwitchyWitchyandBitchy@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Im glad they actually managed to charge one, but it hurts to think about how many more have done it that I don't even know about.

Somewhat related: https://youtu.be/MIzra5yB3hc

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

Another for the "headlines from 1945" collection

[-] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

these guys are still alive? *edit - jfc I thought they were talking about a prosecution from the war 😭

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 5 months ago

I do love the implication that they would just immediately get the wall though

[-] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

I had just been reading up on Japanese apologies for war crimes from 2015

[-] AmericaHaterSexHaver@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

We should bring back racial science and phrenology but just for white people so we can find out where the racism and pedophilia lobes are in the brain

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