We are committed to cooperating fully with the Japanese

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2008: Japanese to U.S.: Get out The two men, both 23, are

alleged to have raped a Japanese woman in the early hours of

Tuesday morning, leaving her with an injury to her neck,

police said. They were taken into custody later that day.

Tensions over the American military presence on Okinawa have

boiled over before. Many residents were incensed by the rape

of a 12-year-old Japanese girl in 1995 by three U.S. military

personnel. And allegations that a Marine raped a 14-year-old

girl caused a furor in 2008, although the girl decided not to

pursue charges.

About half of all U.S. military personnel in Japan are

stationed in Okinawa.

The U.S. government is "extremely concerned" by the

allegations against the two service members, U.S. Ambassador

to Japan John Roos said in a statement Tuesday.

"We are committed to cooperating fully with the Japanese

authorities in their investigation," he said.

Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shuji Kira on Wednesday

summoned Roos over the case, urging the enforcement of

stricter discipline and preventive measures.

Morimoto, the defense minister, suggested that if the

Japanese protests about the matter didn't prove effective

enough, he could raise the issue with U.S. Defense Secretary

Leon Panetta.

Opposition to the presence of U.S. troops in Okinawa runs so

deeply that it contributed to the resignation of former Prime

Minister Yukio Hatoyama in 2010. He had promised to move a

U.S. base but later announced that it would stay. His critics

said at the time that he gave in to U.S. pressure, and his

governing coalition broke up.

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This attitude dates back to the hunter-gatherer days when a
woman had to look after herself and withhold as much as
possible from rivals in order to attract men, the Daily Mail
reported.
Women bosses at their fertility peak could offer up to 25 per
cent less pay to their female counterparts, according to
psychologists at Wellesley College in the US.
Psychology professor Margery Lucas said women need to
consider their timing as well as how attractive their bosses
are before negotiating any deal.
During the study, women had to offer a certain salary to an
on-screen virtual partner, and keep the rest for herself.
At the end of the test, they rated the partner's
attractiveness on a 10-point scale, the daily said.
Scientists said the results showed that on average women in
the fertile stage of the month offered 25 per cent less to
the most attractive women compared to the least attractive
women.
Women at the low-fertility stage were far more generous,
offering 20 per cent more to the prettiest women than they
did to the least good looking.
The researchers said it suggests that women at the low-
fertility stage are less threatened by beautiful female co-
workers.

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 describe the twinned possibilities of the painter's world: as the reclining man points into the painting, into the fictive space that the artist imagines, the traveler points across the surface of the canvas, across the primary plane on which the artist does his work. Through these two gestures we are invited to admire the artist's world in all its variety: not only the young men on horseback, but also the mirror-like pond, the softly bending trees, the rustic buildings, the distant mountains. The painting--bathed in a delicate, penetrating light--is a dream that awakens us to the challenges of reality.
 Jed Perl is The New Republic's art critic.
By Jed Perl
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