A U.S. service member was arrested on suspicion of murder and robbery after a Japanese woman’s body was discovered in a hotel in Okinawa, local officials said, describing the alleged killing as a “heinous” incident that prompted the Japanese government to lodge a protest with the United States.
Shinjiro Koizumi, the Japanese minister of defense, said a U.S. Marine lance corporal was arrested on Sunday after the woman’s body was found early on Saturday in Naha, the capital city of the Okinawa prefecture.
NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, identified the suspect as Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, who was stationed at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, a base a few miles outside Naha. The broadcaster identified the alleged victim as Yagi Anna, 39, saying she was pronounced dead at the scene after being found at about 4:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said the Okinawa Prefectural Police were investigating the incident as a murder.
You do realize that this is literally American Imperialism apologetics?
Formally, the “But X was worse” apologetic argument is called the Fallacy of relative privation, less formally its called the “not as bad as argument” or “appeal to worse problems”, and informally (but most popularly) its known as whataboutism.
And its a very well known apologetic tactic.
Saying that you aren’t going to apologize for something, then using whataboutism is roughly akin to saying “im not a christian, but Jesus Christ is God”
It may not be your intent to apologize for American Imperialism, but that is more or less exactly what you are doing here.
If your goal is really to not apologize for American Imperialism, you need to learn and avoid the most common apologetics tactics because saying “I dont wanna do X” followed immediately by doing X just makes you sound either disingenuous or ignorant.
(Yes, the Japanese terrorism campaign in WWII was awful, but whataboutism isnt the way to bring it up).
Especially since everyone responsible in that era is long dead.