US military ‘incidents and accidents’ killed dozens of Okinawans.

Evidence

In the first sixteen years after the 1995 rape, there were reports of at least twenty-three more rapes and sexual assaults committed by U.S. military personnel in Okinawa. In 2000, for example, a drunk nineteen-year-old marine sneaked into an apartment and sexually assaulted a fourteen-year-old girl. In total, between 1972 (when Okinawa was returned to Japan) and 2011, the Okinawan prefectural government has documented 5,747 criminal cases involving GIs, including more than a thousand violent offenses. Over the same period, the prefecture documented 1,609 “incidents and accidents” ranging from speeding tickets to damage from military exercises, and more than a thousand aircraft-related accidents and forest fires. Between 1981 and 2011, the prefecture counted 2,764 traffic accidents, many related to drunk driving. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 864 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Okinawan authorities documented thousands of GI crimes and accidents since 1972. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 864; The US displaced half of Okinawa’s population by the mid-1950s.

Related

• Okinawan authorities documented thousands of GI crimes and accidents since 1972. (similarity 0.95)
• Okinawan officials documented thousands of GI crimes and accidents over four decades (similarity 0.92)
• GIs committed about 350 rapes and assaults against Okinawan women from 1945 to 2011 (similarity 0.85)
• Repeated U.S. military accidents have killed and injured Okinawan civilians for decades (similarity 0.83)
• Some Okinawan deaths at U.S. hands were deliberate murders by servicemen (similarity 0.82)
• US servicemen murdered at least seventeen women in Okinawa during the Vietnam War (similarity 0.81)
• The 1995 rape of an Okinawan schoolgirl finally forced base-reduction negotiations (similarity 0.79)
• The US displaced half of Okinawa’s population by the mid-1950s. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Okinawan authorities documented thousands of GI crimes and accidents since 1972. #corroborates (0.80) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 864
• The US displaced half of Okinawa’s population by the mid-1950s. #expands (0.50)