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  • US Military Finds Sailor in Slain Taxi Driver's Case: Report (JAPAN)

    03/21/2008 10:32:39 PM PDT · by AmericanInTokyo · 24 replies · 832+ views
    Today On Line (Japan) ^ | 22 March 2008 | Today On Line (Japan)
    US military finds sailor in slain taxi driver's case: report Weekend March 22, 2008 The US military Saturday took into custody a deserter in Japan wanted for questioning over the killing of a taxi driver, a report said.The US military, which has been looking for the sailor since early this month, informed Japan early Saturday that he was found in the military hub of Yokosuka near Tokyo, Kyodo News said, quoting police sources. The report said the sailor's credit card was found Wednesday in a parked taxi in which the 61-year-old driver was stabbed to death with a kitchen...
  • US Navy allows sailors in Japan to engage in Shinto Religion Ceremony (Photos)

    10/29/2007 12:06:39 AM PDT · by AmericanInTokyo · 54 replies · 415+ views
    Japanese News sources and US Military, Japan ^ | 29 October 2007 | AmericaninTokyo
    Not to "step on anybody's rice bowl" here, but does anyone besides me find this a bit IRONIC??Here we have a case where we are told by The Pentagon back in the States that military funerals, involving a time-honored tradition of flag-folding, must be "religiously cleansed", and other references for example to Jesus Christ kept out of Chaplains' public comments.All the while, here in Japan, just one week ago (as in previous years), the US Navy's Commander of Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY) and MWR Office officially sanctioned, paid for, or otherwise arranged American sailors to parade through the streets in...