The government expressed "regret" to U.S. Ambassador Rahm Emanuel over the incident and called for stronger oversight of behavior by military personnel, Hayashi said.
"That something like this was done to a minor not only causes great fear to local residents living side-by-side with U.S. bases but tramples on the dignity of women," he told reporters. "The excessive burden of hosting military bases is an everyday matter for us, and is intolerable."
nothing will change
My memory is hazy on it but I remember a hexbear poster talking about how U.S. soldiers stationed in Japan started the whole lolicon craze in their pop culture. Am I talking out my ass?
I remember bringing up "Misora Hibari and the Girl Star in Postwar Japanese Cinema” by Deborah Shamoon in a thread a long time ago
Edited to include link to the full paper - not the abstract only.
It was probably you and where I was thinking on it, so it was a product of the postwar reconstruction?
I'm not a super smarty academic who has studied this, so take my opinion with a pound of salt.
I'd say many aspects of the lolicon craze in Japan have roots in American culture that rubbed off during the post-war occupation. People see sexualization of children in Japanese media and tend to have this orientalist "oh, Japan
" reaction to it while ignoring all the gross parts of their western cultures that also sexualize children.
The west is literally ruled by pedophiles