Will This One Make Headlines?
February 2nd, 2007
Infractions committed by members of the U.S. military in Japan, sometimes even relatively minor ones, tend to make headline news here. So the question should be: when U.S. soldiers immediately come to the rescue of a Japanese man who fell onto the subway train tracks at Roppongi station (when no other bystanders moved to help), will this also be recognized in the Japanese media? Especially when such rescues are often reported when they do not involve American servicemen?
I’m not holding my breath. So far, only Stars and Stripes has the story of the rescue–which happened almost two weeks ago.