"Where's that girl I liked? Call her over!"
A drunken voice bellowed loudly, mixed with Madam's humble apologies and placating laughter. When Sean heard the man speaking English, he frowned slightly. Then he rose from the pool, leaped out of the hot spring, wrapped a towel around his waist, and walked outside.
In the corridor outside the hot spring area, two Black men in camouflage uniforms were shouting loudly and acting arrogantly. One of them had begun getting handsy. Barefoot, Sean walked over and pushed aside the Black man's arm as it groped Madam.
Normally, the red-light district around Kabukicho Ichiban Street did not do business with foreigners, especially men openly dressed in military uniforms. One look made it clear they had come from a United States military base stationed by Tokyo Bay. Even Japan's dominant yakuza organizations found such people troublesome.
The United States military bases in Japan had been established after the United States occupied Japan in 1945. They were among the remnants of World War II and remained a vital part of the United States' global strategy to this day. Their continued presence formed an important foundation of the military alliance between the United States and Japan.
The headquarters of Yokosuka Fleet Base was stationed by Tokyo Bay, serving as the United States' primary naval facility in the western Pacific Ocean. The aircraft carrier Reagan was stationed there, along with an escort fleet of eight vessels. In addition to docking facilities, Yokosuka had first-class ship repair facilities, as well as strategically significant fuel and ammunition depots.
Beyond that, places such as Kyushu Island, Yokota, Zama, and Okinawa Island also housed United States military bases and headquarters. Under the banner of protection through overwhelming military strength, they in fact used the island nation as a center from which