Commanders say violence a ‘zero-tolerance’ issue in Japan

[unhappycamper]

Commanders say violence a ‘zero-tolerance’ issue in Japan
By Allison Batdorff, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Tuesday, Arpil 22, 2008

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — What happens when a sailor in your berthing compartment threatens you with bodily harm?

Do you report it? Do nothing and hope it blows over? Tell the sailor: “Go ahead, make my day”?

While people largely know violence is wrong, the recent fatal stabbing of a taxi driver by a sailor has made “getting to the gray areas” of violence a priority for Navy leaders in Japan looking to curb violence within their ranks.

Commander U.S. Naval Forces Japan Rear Adm. James D. Kelly and 7th Fleet commander Vice Adm. Doug Crowder are working together to make violence a “zero-tolerance” issue in Japan, Kelly said last week.

“When it comes to drugs or something like sexual assault, people know that’s there 100 percent no tolerance for it in the Navy,” Kelly said. “We want anti-violent resolutions to become part of mantra in Japan.”


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=54212

[DrDan]

1. too bad they cannot expand the anti-violent resolutions from Japan to the White House