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/

Where in Japan do you want to live? - SeikatsuGuide.com

Shinjuku, Tokyo

SeikatsuGuide.com a website managed by SBI Life Living revealed the rankings of ideal place in Japan to live chosen by the membership users.
Clicking on the city names directs you to Google Maps.

[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

2012 Miss International won by a Japanese lady

Ikumi Yoshimatsu

Ikumi Yoshimatsu a 25-year-old Japanese female model won Miss International 2012 held in Naha, Okinawa for the first time as Japanese.
"Women will be opinion leaders in next generation. I talked about what action I would like to take in my speech."
She works as the sightseeing ambassador of her home city, Tosu City, Saga from March 2012.


ミス・インターナショナル　吉松さん　日本人Ｖは初　―東京新聞
http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/national/news/CK2012102202000081.html