A civilian employee of the US military has been sentenced to nine years in prison for two rapes on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa.

Dag A Thompson, 36, was convicted of two separate rapes that occurred in 1998 and 2004, court officials said.

He was described as an ex-Marine who had sold cars at the US Kadena air base.

The case comes at a sensitive time, as the US redeploys its forces in Japan, amid some local hostility.

As many as 50,000 US troops are stationed in Japan, with 20,000 of them on Okinawa.

Some bases and personnel are being shifted around as part of a Pentagon effort to streamline its forces overseas, provoking strong opposition in areas where expansion is planned.

The US military presence is sensitive, due to local concerns about noise, the impact on the environment, and crime.

The country is still scarred by the 1995 rape of a Japanese schoolgirl in Okinawa by three American servicemen.

The US military did not immediately comment on the conviction of Thompson.

Japan's Kyodo News said that he was arrested in 2004, and that both of the victims were in their 20s.

BBC News

evil. bah only 9 years?

We would have given him death via catapult!

rapists should all die!

cut off his balls

A suitable punishment.

And make him eat them 2

just kill him holy....everyone is so soft these days...

yeah they should. asian women are more likely to be raped by strangers (instead of people they know) than any other race of women. its a fine balance between wanting attention from random strangers in America walking the streets and fearing for your life.

I'm going to assume this rapist is white and not trying to be racist here, but I think they especially have this stereotype of asian, especially east/south/southeast asian women as being meek and submissive.

Yah I'm stationed in Japan and I'm hmong, and I'm in the US Navy.

The rapist should hang. I hope he gets his butt kicked in prison!

he needs to put into the same prison cell with a bunch of homosexual prisoners and get buttsecksed everyday.

Get all 50,000 imperialist bastards out.

or butt raped.

you are back!

LOL


Okay, now that is just plain sick. ><

Cut his balls off!

Only sentenced to 9 years...that's not harsh enough.

Boil em first...

I fully support the catapult idea, bring bach the old ways!

9 years is hardly enough. It's sad that many foreigners in Asia have a twisted fantasy/fetish about asian women.

damn them to hheelll (by the way I am shaking my fist)

any rapes are wrong and should be punished harshly.

I 2nd that motion, we all should go out and find these people.


*albedo walks out of his house with swords in hand*

y didnt they make a porno out of it/????

d!ck

hmmmm...........(stern looking)

HARA-KIRI!!!!

HARA-KIRI??? what does it mean?
sorry dumb german-american

Eat his ball?
that sick!

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$hit happens

That was a big issue on base a few weeks ago. Didn't really care for it though.