US Military Blacks and Horrid Crimes in Japan
by Ian Mosley
The old days of a White US military are long gone. Whenever someone hears the words “US military base” they suddenly envision large numbers of Blacks and Latinos, bad neighborhoods and crime. The modern US military doesn’t just spread destruction and death in Iraq and Afghanistan, they have become a major source of crime in nations like Japan. The Japanese people have suffered for over sixty years from the presence of the American military in their midst, on Okinawa and on the Japanese home islands as well. Japan is one of the few remaining homogenous societies in the world, and it seems that the most horrific crimes committed in Japan are done by Black US soldiers and sailors.
A long series of rapes by Black American servicemen has seriously damaged the reputation of the US in Japan (and around the world). A US military base is no longer a “good thing” but a source of danger to the local community. A CNN article reports ” Three U.S. servicemen were convicted Thursday in the kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Okinawa girl and sentenced to up to seven years in a Japanese prison. The verdict handed down by a panel of three judges — Japan does not have a jury system — followed months of protests against the U.S. military presence in Okinawa. In the aftermath of the crime, support for American troops in Japan has reached one of its lowest points since World War II.”
U.S. Navy airman William Oliver Reese Jr., aged 22, was sentenced to life in prison for beating to death a middle-aged Japanese woman. It takes some effort to find a picture of Reese, who is yet another African American criminal in our military. The mainstream media has not run a photo of Reese, which is very common behavior when the criminal is Black. In the original story, there was a “give-away” to Reese’s race when they mentioned the name of his sister “Tieshia.” Often, small clues like that are the only way to tell the race of the perpetrator.
The Stars and Stripes article reports that “Reese, a New Jersey native assigned to the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, admitted killing 56-year-old Yoshie Sato after drinking all night at a local bar. He stopped Sato on the street, asked directions to nearby Yokosuka Naval Base, then tried to grab her purse. When Sato resisted and screamed for help, Reese dragged her into a nearby building entrance and beat her for 11 minutes, throwing her against a concrete wall and stomping on her belly with sport shoes a number of times.”
Ironically what saved Reese from the Japanese equivalent of a first degree murder charge was his tendency to behave with extreme violence with no planning. Reese stole the equivalent of about $130. Reese will join five other Americans also serving life sentences for cold and calloused murders and/or rapes of Japanese.
Believe it or not, Reese actually tried to play the race card as part of his guilty plea. He said he went berserk and murdered the frail middle-aged woman because he “lost his temper when she backed away from him.” Well, what is a small Japanese woman supposed to think when she is confronted with a large Black man in a dark alley? She was living in Japan. She didn’t expect to see any Africans. How would an American react if he saw an 800 lb gorilla face-to-face in his neighborhood? Reese of course doesn’t mention if he had made a grab for her purse thus provoking her reaction. By stealing her purse and brutally beating her to death, Reese proved that women should be afraid of Black men.
Reese claimed the robbery was just an afterthought. No doubt pressure will quietly be brought on the Japanese government to give light sentences (or no punishment) to any future Black criminals in uniform who “only” mug or beat Japanese civilians. The United States government needs every warm body it can get in a uniform right now.