1995 Okinawa rape incident
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The 1995 Okinawa rape incident occurred on September 4, 1995, when three black U.S. servicemen, 22-year-old U.S. Navy Seaman Marcus Dion Gill, 21-year-old U.S. Marine Rodrico Harp, and 20-year-old Ken
Protesters in Ginowan
Blue Beach Training Area, where the rape took place
Naha District Court
Okinawa Island
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Okinawa Island, also known as Okinawa Main Island, is the largest of the Okinawa Islands and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan in the Kyushu region. The island is approximately 106 kilometres long, an avera
1995 Okinawa rape incident
…22-year-old U.S. Navy Seaman Marcus Dion Gill, 21-year-old U.S. Marine Rodrico Harp, and 20-year-old Kendrick Ledet, all serving at Camp Hansen in Okinawa Island, rented a van and kidnapped a 12-year-old Okinawan girl. Gill beat her, after the other two duct-taped her eyes and mouth shut, and bound her hands…
Okinawa Island in January 2015
The first of the Ryukyuan missions to Edo, the capital of Tokugawa shogunate
The last King Shō Tai
American troops in Okinawa, 27 June 1945