Special Report: US troops are stationed in Japan to protect the nation. But to sex workers in Okinawa, they bring fear, not security
DAVID MCNEILL OKINAWA SUNDAY 16 JUNE 2013
via mozu
Business is slow in Okinawa’s biggest red-light district. Touts stand idle beneath neon signs advertising “soap-land” brothels, where prostitutes lather male clients for money. A handful of men loiter to peer at the photos of women pasted on billboards outside, though few appear willing to part with Y15,000 (￡100) to spend an hour with one inside. Desperate as some of the businesses are, however, many still decline one type of customer: US military servicemen.
“Too much trouble,” explains one tout working the Tsuji-machi district of Naha, Okinawa’s capital. The soap-land businesses that do admit Americans tend to pair them with older, more experienced women. “They scare the younger girls,” says another tout. “Especially when they have had a few drinks.”
米兵って買春してたの？？？？？ いやだあああ、しんじられなーーーい！
“The only reason why some “soaps” accept American military personnel is because there are too few customers,” says a prostitute in Tsuji-machi who requested anonymity. She says she’ll have sex with older men during the day time but refuses younger troops at night.
“They get rough, grabbing you by the neck and slapping your face,” she says. “I’d prefer not to work at all than endure that. Why should we have to absorb the hatred in the world?”
うわっ！めちゃくちゃ！
戦争好きのアメリカの雑誌社に勤めるヒロコタブチ記者やユカハヤシ記者はなぜ、いまだにこの件について、沈黙を続けているのだろうか？
それも米兵の在日特権か？
因みに、
“We’ve been living with military crimes since 1945,” says Chuuji Chinen, a retired journalist who campaigns against the US bases. “If (Hashimoto) is concerned about us he should tell the soldiers to get out instead of asking local women to service them.”
これはたしかだな。
橋下氏は、米軍の女性に地元のプロの女性をあてがうというより、米軍に沖縄から出て行ってくれ、というべきであった、と。
ときに極左的とも目されるるマクニール氏としては一環した態度で好感がもてる。
ついでに、少なくとも
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
by Susan Brownmiller
Sex Among Allies [Paperback]
Katharine H. S. Moon (Author)
など読んで、慰安婦問題における、韓国政府と米議会、米ジャーナリストの大偽善についても暴露してほしいものだ。
