Allegations come days after Japanese authorities increased efforts to deter crimes by US servicemen on island

Two US marines based on the Japanese island of Okinawa are being investigated for alleged rape, days after local authorities stepped up efforts to deter sexual and other crimes by US service personnel.

A marine in his 20s is suspected of raping a Japanese woman in a bathroom at a US military base last month, while a second man, also a marine in his 20s, allegedly raped a woman at a base in January, according to media reports.

The men, who were not named publicly, had been referred to Japanese prosecutors, the Kyodo news agency said.

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    4 days ago

    So you literally linked to the Starts and Stripes, a newspaper by the DOD, and the Asia times which claims for itself to report on Asia “from a US perspective” and claim you found more information there while the first article is not even reporting on the cases mentioned in the original source.

    Yeah. Sure.