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Although Japan and the United States have concurred on Japan’s jurisdiction over crimes committed by U.S. military personnel and others stationed in Japan, there exists a document implying that the two countries actually had concluded a secret pact under which Japan waives its jurisdiction over crimes with the exception of major [...]

Under Japan’s new drink-driving laws which permit the police to fine passengers, not just the driver, the first passenger to be so charged was sentenced to a JPY250,000 in Sendai District Court.
The passenger was fined on the basis that he asked his drunk friend to drive him home while knowing that the driver was drunk. As a result, the driver slammed [...]

I need to further research the article below (considering the source of information, the Akahata Shimbun) and provide my analysis. Please feel free to comment!
[Akata Shimbun] It has been revealed that Japan and the U.S. concluded a secret treaty that specifies Japan’s waiver of primary jurisdiction over crimes committed by U.S. soldiers off duty in cases deemed of “no special importance.” [...]

Here is a follow-up to the BT story on the manga produced by US Naval Forces Japan. 
***FREE downloads of CVN 73 in English and Japanese***
An interesting note is that Osaka Shoseki, the company that published the 26,000 CVN73 copies for US$90,000, prints primarily textbooks instead of manga. It is one of the companies in the recent controversy over revisions to Japanese history [...]

YOKOSUKA, Japan — U.S. Naval Forces Japan, based in the city, plans to give away several thousand copies of the manga to people in front of the base from noon Sunday. 
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Source: Kyodo News Service, Posted : Friday Jun 6, 2008 7:49:25 EDT

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Meet USS George Washington sailor Jack Ohara — the fictitious star of a Navy-created comic book called “CVN-73.”
Ohara is a young third-class petty officer, nervous about coming to Japan on his first overseas assignment. But while Ohara doesn’t really exist, the comic’s plot line about the aircraft carrier’s summer arrival [...]

Japan and the United States yesterday held a meeting of their intergovernmental joint committee to discuss the lack of information about a U.S. military deserter in connection with a taxicab driver slain in the city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture.
In the meeting, the Japanese and U.S. governments agreed to quicken procedures to acknowledge desertion. Based on the agreement, the United [...]