22 November 2012, after decades of atrocities committed by U.S. personnel against the people of Okinawa, U.S. military officials are now going after their own troops.

This comes after a sudden increase in the number of crimes committed by U.S. citizens against Japanese citizens.

In October a curfew was ordered for U.S. personnel after two U.S. citizens raped a woman (and this was part of a string of increased crimes against Japanese).  The curfew hasn’t worked as since then several more U.S. servicemen were caught getting drunk after curfew, vandalizing property and assaulting people.

Now the U.S. military has plainclothes cops patrolling the streets of Okinawa at night, in order to protect the Japanese from the U.S. military!

The people of Okinawa have protested for decades, but the Japanese leaders in Tokyo have always kowtowed to U.S. demands.

One of those complaints is that U.S. military jets intentionally fly low and loud at night over residential areas.  Now Okinawans have brought a $2.7 million USD lawsuit against the U.S. military at Kadena Air Base.  They are able to do this because a 2010 legal decision said that foreign forces in Japan are no longer immune from legal prosecution.