On this day in 1970, a spontaneous uprising against U.S. military occupation broke out in Koza, Okinawa, Japan after an American drunk driver struck a local pedestrian. Approximately 60 Americans and 27 Okinawans were injured, and dozens of cars with American license plates were torched.
Following Japan's defeat in World War II, the country was occupied by Allied forces and governed under martial law. While most of Japan regained its independence in April 1952, the Okinawa Prefecture was to remain under U.S. military occupation for another twenty years.
Prior to the events of December 20th, three Americans had been acquitted via court martial after striking and killing an Okinawa civilian. This incident fueled the growing discontent of Okinawans with the standard status of forces that exempted U.S. servicemen from Okinawan justice.
On December 20th, 1970, a drunk U.S. serviceman struck an Okinawan pedestrian in the city of Koza. A crowd quickly surrounded the car and the policemen who had arrived, demanding that this incident not also be swept under the rug.
When American MPs arrived and attempted to pull the driver away, the protest turned violent, with thousands gathering to try to prevent the driver from leaving. By the end of the night, dozens of cars with American license plates had been torched and approximately 60 Americans and 27 Okinawans had been injured.
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Just got a "hey I like your shoes" last week so I won't be barefoot. π
Can I revive pants from the past? I used to have cool crust pants but have given up in favor of the jegging cause it's not the hardest thing ever to maintain
Hold on let me google something.
Yeah those look dope AF go for it.
BTW these are real crust pants. Most of Google images is just patchy pants or fake crust pants.
Damn. A lot of work went in to making those.
My vest has 1500 studs I placed by hand. Punks work fucking hard in their clothes
fuckin sick
They look cool as hell but if you're not a piser and faking it you gotta be doing constant upkeep cause you the pants go all ship of theseus and are eventually pretty much just all patch.
My ADHD ass could never. Time spent fiddling with clothes is time not spent making my computer fail to boot because I wanted to know if I really needed that service enabled.
If you can handle the upkeep go for it tho they look neat!
Oh I've given up partially cause I work now and have to wear real pants and also the invention of the jegging. It was a style created by homeless drug addicts. Good crust pants take years of holes and patching cause it's literally your only pair of pants.
Stupid dress codes ruining all the fun. I'm only allowed khakis. :(
Yeah that's too much work for pants no matter how neat they look.
Being a dirty punk and looking cool is shockingly high maintenance
Wait, you literally got "nice shoes"'d?
I've gotten "nice shoes'd" twice in the past 2 years, I just wear nice shoes IG (one of them was just a pair of Jordan 1 retro high pine greens tho lol)
I don't remember the exact phrasing but essentially that yeah