[UNaruto1990]

whether it affects US-Japan alliance is not really our call, US troops had done alot of crimes there in Japan, so basicly it easily can affect both countries alliance, I think one more crime is enough to shake this whole alliance, and as some of you said, maybe it's because US troops think they are above law.

One correction is, it's not a LITTLE accident or something that could happen anywhere like some of you stated, I agree that in Japan this occures by Japanese people just as it happened by US soldier, but that doesn't say anything at all, for example, I can get shot by an enemy, but if I got shot by a friend that would be more painful and horrible, although basicly both are getting shot, so a US soldier commiting a crime in Japan is far more worse than a normal Japanese doing a crime in Japan.