Following the incident of US forces in Japan and the second consecutive accident, the Governor-General of the Governor of the Governorate of the Prefectural Government of 15 prefectures that have bases requested the Government to establish a provision that obliges the US military for crime prevention in the Japan-US Position Agreement . Traditionally criminal procedures of "after the incident" have been discussed mainly, but new viewpoints of "preventive" have been added to encourage talks with the US to revise the status agreement.
The Japan-US territory agreement that determines the handling and rights of the US military has not been revised once after the conclusion of 1960. The Governor's Council calls on the national government to revise such as applying domestic law to the US military each year as "There is a problem of position agreement under the base of diverse base problems" every year. Okinawa Prefecture Considering expansion of contents from last summer due to the case (2016) where the woman of Uruma City was killed and the former Marine was indicted and the explosion fire (15 years) at Sagami General Supply Plant in Kanagawa Prefecture (Sho) Was.
At the General Assembly this day, along with obliging crime prevention, the US military decided a special request for the establishment of a new provision that is responsible for securing residents' security through the management of the base. Chairman Yuji Kuroiwa and governors of Kanagawa Prefecture, etc. submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defense.
According to the secretariat of the governor, Mr. Masahisa Fujita, Deputy Foreign Minister, Mr. Masahisa Sato said, "Although it is difficult to revise, what we can do with operational improvement will effectively proceed."
The National Association of Governors unanimously adopted the proposal calling for a drastic revision on Japan-US territory agreement on 27th. (Yoshimura Norio)