Members of a USS crew filed suit against TEPCO

8 members of a USS Ronald Reagan crew who joined "Operation Tomodachi", the assistance operation to support Japan in disaster relief following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami file a suit against TEPCO(Tokyo Electric Power Company) for being exposed to radiation.
The plaintiffs are arguing that they had to work in the stricken area while misunderstanding radiation risk not having being provided accurate information. They claim 220 million dollars, 10 million for the each in damages and the rest for establishing a fund for medical expenses in the future.


トモダチ作戦参加の米兵が東電訴える　―NHKニュース
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20121228/k10014491471000.html

U.S. Navy Japan prohibits alcohol after 10 PM

U.S. Force Japan Sasebo Base

U.S. Naval Force Japan ordered the prohibition of alcohol between 10 pm to 8 am to all the bases in Japan. It earlier prohibited the officers from going out between 11 pm and 5 am after two officers were arrested for assaulting an Okinawan female.


日本の全基地に夜間禁酒令　米海軍　―日本経済新聞
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNZO48860040X21C12A1CC1000/

U.S. Forces officer became naked and urinated inside an internet cafe

USS George Washington at Yokosuka, Kanagawa

A crew of the USS George Washington, Petty Officer 3rd Class Oscar Hayes Wiygul(23) on November 23rd was arrested for being naked and urinating inside a manga and internet cafe in Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama.
He was drunk when he came to the cafe with his colleague(21).
U.S. Forces Japan is prohibiting all the officers from going out between 11PM and 5AM.


米兵が漫画喫茶で全裸、公然わいせつ容疑で逮捕、外出禁止時間に／神奈川　―カナロコ 神奈川新聞社
http://news.kanaloco.jp/localnews/article/1211230036/

[Okinawa] An U.S. Navy soldier intruded into a house and assaulted a boy

Kadena Air Base

A drunken American officer of Kadena Air Base in Okinawa at 1AM on November 2nd behaved violently in a izakaya bar in the town. Before the police arrival, he appeared to intruded into an apartment room on the third floor of the building, hit a 13-year-old boy in the face who was sleeping in the living room, broke a TV, then fell off from the window to the ground. He was delivered to the navy hospital breaking the ribs and collapsing the lungs.
The police couldn't capture him because of extraterritorial rights of the navy hospital.
He seemed to broke the curfew, the prohibition for the U.S. military officers to go out between 11PM and 5AM enforced after the rape case by American officers on September 16th.


米兵、中学生を殴打 酔って民家侵入　県警、容疑聴取できず　―琉球新報
http://ryukyushimpo.jp/news/storyid-198770-storytopic-1.html

U.S. marine officer found dead in the train station

The U.S. Naval Base in Sasebo

Petty officer, second class, Samuel Lewis Stiles, 25 who belongs to the U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo found dead on the platform of JR Haiki Station in Sasebo City, Nagasaki at 5AM on October 28th.
The right shoulder of his jacket was burnt and he was bleeding from the forehead. He appeared to have electric shock by touching a pantograph on the roof of the train stopping at the station. Police found cans of alcohol beverage on the floor and from his bag.


米軍兵士:駅ホームで死亡　電車に登り感電し転落か…長崎　―毎日jp
http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20121029k0000m040054000c.html

Job cuts of foreign banks in Japan in 2011

Roppongi Hills Tokyo where Goldman Sachs and Barclays occupy floors

9 foreign banks in Japan including Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse in a year until March 2011 had cut more than twice as much as jobs than the year before.
The number of employees of foreign banks in Japan such as Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas were 6,796 in total in the end of March 2012 reduced by 573(7.3%) in a year, compared to 7,333 in March 2011 reduced by 239(3.2%) in the year.

Employees Reduced(now)
Goldman Sachs -14% (847)
Credit Suisse -8.6% (540)
Deutsche Bank -7.9% (834)
BNP Paribas -7.4% (462)
Barclays / Citi / Morgan Stanley / Bank of America / J.P. Morgan also reduced.


ゴールドマンなど外資系証券９社、日本で人員削減を急加速　―Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.co.jp/news/123-M83XFD0D9L3601.html

The U.S. F-16 fighter crashed into the sea near Nemuro

F-16 fighter


A F-16 fighter took off from Misawa Air Base in Aomori in July 23rd at around 3PM fell into the sea 870km offshore from Nemuro, Hokkaido.
A male pilot escaped from the aircraft was saved by a ship of Hokkaido National Fisheries Institute after after floating on the water for about 6 hours.


墜落の米軍Ｆ１６パイロット救助　海上漂流中、水産研究所の船に　―MSN産経ニュース
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/affairs/news/120722/dst12072219450013-n1.htm