Status of Forces Agreement...

U.S. presence in grillings unfair scrutiny?

Critics hit SOFA's service protections since others must face cops alone.

HIROSHI MATSUBARA - Staff writer
The Japan Times Online

The Justice Ministry official declined to say whether such apparent exceptional treatment of U.S military criminal suspects could run counter to the constitutional equality of all people, but added that Japan, by having a foreign military with police authority, is in an "exceptional" situation in the first place.