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• Rape Hobbles Bush Administration Policies. Truthout, 26 May 2008. Sexual assaults and rapes by US military in Japan lead to a major international incident.
  
• Impact of 'rape' case goes beyond marine's release. Daily Yomiuru Online, 2 March 2008. NAHA--The withdrawal of an accusation against a U.S. Marine Corps sergeant arrested on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old middle school girl and the subsequent decision by prosecutors to release him is causing a ripple of reactions among those making efforts to prevent such incidents.
  
• Rape case leads to U.S. troops restriction in Japan. CNN Asia, 20 February 2008. American troops and their families stationed in Okinawa have been given new restrictions because of a recent accusation that a 38-year-old U.S. Marine raped a 14-year-old Japanese girl, the U.S. military said.
• U.S. Marines charged with rape of Japanese woman. Reuters, 15 February 2008. Four U.S. Marines based in southwest Japan have been charged with raping a Japanese woman last October, a U.S. military spokesman said on Friday, days after the arrest of another Marine for suspected rape of a schoolgirl on the southern island of Okinawa.
  
• Japan expresses regret over U.S. call for apology in WWII sex slavery. The International Herald Tribune, 31 July 2007. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described as "regrettable" on Tuesday the approval of a resolution by the U.S. House of Representatives calling on Japan to acknowledge its wartime sex slavery, indicating strongly that the Japanese government would not offer surviving victims an official apology.

• Culture & Crime Promote Commercial Markets of Sexual Exploitation, Shared Hope International, 2008
• DEMAND. A Comparative Examination of Sex Tourism and Trafficking in Jamaica, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States. Shared Hope International. 2007
• WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence: Japan
  (also available in French and Spanish)
• Information Document Submitted to Ms.Lalaina Rakotoarisoa, Member of the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
  Japan Federation of Bar Associations, 2004

• Measuring Japanese mothers' perception of child abuse: development of a Japanese version of the child abuse blame scale - physical abuse (CABS-PA-J). Fujimoto M, Hirose T, Nakayama T, Okawa H, Takigawa I. Biopsychosoc Med; 1(1): 14. 2007
• Smuggling for sex. J McCurry, Lancet Volume 364, Number 9443 16 October 2004