There have been multiple pushes by the Japanese government to force the military out of Japan. It must be more than the standard mile-circumference drunk soldier/sailor/Marine syndrome.
At any rate, I’ll be interested to see how military assistance changes that dynamic.
All it takes is one rape or murder to really get folks attention. Unfortunately there have been several of those committed by service members.
That’s the Okinawan local government doing that. The Japanese government has been looking more at relocating the US bases elsewhere on Okinawa or onto the main islands proper.
Not out of Japan, though.
That’s more typical of Korea. Or that least until NK lit off a nuke, sunk a cruiser, and shelled YP-do...