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Of these, 129 occurred in Okinawa, 67 in Kanagawa and 34 in Tokyo.<br \/>The report linked the high number of crimes involving U.S. military-related personnel to the burden of hosting U.S. military bases, arguing that the Japanese and U.S. governments had failed to take effective measures to address the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese police recorded 4,998 criminal cases nationwide involving U.S. military personnel, civilian employees and their family members from 1989 through May 2026, with nearly half occurring in Okinawa Prefecture, according to media reports.Of the total, 2,447 cases, or 49.0 percent, occurred in Okinawa Prefecture, followed by Kanagawa Prefecture with 18.3 percent and Tokyo with 8.9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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