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A warning for Americans to avoid travel to Japan due to its latest coronavirus surge will not affect U.S. athletes’ participation in the Tokyo Olympics, the chief cabinet secretary said Tuesday.
By ERICA EARL | STARS AND STRIPES Published: May 10, 2021 The former commander of Sasebo Naval Base savored a rare opportunity Saturday as he helped run the Nagasaki prefecture leg of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay in Sasebo, Japan. Capt. Brad Stallings, who now serves as the U.S. Naval Forces Japan chief of staff, was nominated to be a torch bearer by Sasebo City 1 ½ years ago, base spokesman Aki Nichols told Stars and Stripes by phone Monday. The city wanted to recognize its relationship with the Navy. “This was a once in a lifetime opportunity,” Stallings said in an interview with Japanese broadcasting company NHK.
By JOSEPH DITZLER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: May 3, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. TOKYO – The spring coronavirus surge continued Monday in Japan’s two largest cities, where emergency restrictions dampened the traditional weeklong vacation period for many Japanese. In Osaka prefecture, Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura called on people to stay home during Golden Week, the period ending Wednesday, and cited overburdened medical facilities due to record-breaking new case numbers, public broadcaster NHK reported.
By ERICA EARL | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 29, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. TOKYO – As Japan’s coronavirus cases continued to surge on Thursday, some U.S. military bases there and in South Korea announced they would resume administering the one-dose vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson as soon as Friday. Meanwhile, seven people associated with U.S. Forces Korea tested positive for the virus between April 7 and April 23, the command announced via Facebook on Thursday. No new cases had been reported by bases in Japan as of 6 p.m.