colony (quokk.au)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/mop
 
Hello Kitty graphic with the text: "Japan is a US colony. There are US military bases all over the country (which Japan has no jurisdiction over) and the japanese military is under US command when there is a national emergency."
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[–] 11 points 7 months ago

The Japanese-American Status of Forces Agreements at no point remove Japanese jurisdictional authority over American military sites.

They function nearly identically to other SOFA between states around the world — which makes sense because they are largely the template for later such agreements.

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