Yokosuka Residents Angered at Alleged Murder by U.S. Sailor

I. Yokosuka Residents Angered at Alleged Murder by U.S. Sailor

Japan Today, Friday 4, 2008 05:22 AM JST

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/yokosuka-residents-angered-at-alleged-murder-by-us-sailor

II. In this article a 22-year-old U.S. Navy seaman, Olatunbosun Ugbogu, was arrested by the Japanese police on suspicion of stabbing the taxi driver in the left shoulder with a kitchen knife in Takahashi’s cab in Yokosuka. Local residents have renewed anger at this arrest along with other crimes by U.S. personnel in the city which hosts a U.S. naval base. Many think severe punishment should be given to the criminal.

III. A) This article fits, “State-building, expansion, and conflict.” This is because there is a conflict between a U.S. Navy man and a Japanese cab driver.

B) There has been another incident involving a murder and a robbery committed by a U.S. sailor in Yokosuka in 2006. They have finally arrested the criminal.

C) This article is most likely written by a Japanese reporter.

D) When reading this article it is important to be cautious because the reporter may be making the U.S. sound like a bad country for the crimes of a few sailor’s and make Japan look innocent.

E) It would be helpful to hear from the U.S. Navy General because he could tell if he knew where this sailor was or was supposed to be while he committed the crime and why the sailor wasn’t with the rest of the sailors.

F) I think this is horrible. U.S. Navy seamen should not be wondering the streets with knives ready to kill people and if they have a criminal streak they should not be in the Navy. It is not good having people like that represent the U.S. in other countries because they set a bad image for the people of the United States.