Protests spread in Japan over alleged rape

[unhappycamper]

Protests spread in Japan over alleged rape
Kyodo
Posted : Tuesday Feb 12, 2008 21:55:37 EST

NAHA, Japan — Protests continued to spread Wednesday in Okinawa Prefecture in the wake of the alleged rape by a Marine of a 14-year-old girl over the weekend.

Two local assemblies adopted a joint protest resolution, while Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence, an influential civic group that played a key role in a massive rally in 1995, sent a letter to President Bush.

Senior Vice Foreign Minister Itsunori Onodera, meanwhile, is slated to meet later in the day with Marine Lt. Gen. Richard Zilmer, who heads the U.S. military in Okinawa, at the Foreign Ministry’s office in the prefecture to call for disciplinary and preventive measures.

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer will visit the Okinawa prefectural government for talks with Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima in the afternoon to convey regret over the incident, according to prefectural government officials.

In the joint resolution, the assemblies of the town of Chatan, where the alleged rape occurred Sunday night, and the city of Okinawa, where the Marine allegedly met the girl, called for preventive measures, an apology and compensation for the victim.


Rest of article at: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/02/ap_japanprotests_080212/

[DrDan]

1. the city wants an apology? and money?

good heavens . . .

preventive measures I would certainly support. But an apology and money?