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The U.S. Army on Okinawa on Tuesday denied a local newspaper’s claim that a Marine pointed his rifle at a Japanese reporter during a security exercise at a U.S. military port last week.
. TOKYO – U.S. military bases in Japan are starting to adjust their coronavirus restrictions to give their vaccinated population leeway to travel and take part in activities that were off-limits during the pandemic. None of the U.S. commands in Japan reported new cases of COVID-19, the coronavirus respiratory disease, by 6 p.m. Thursday. In South Korea, the U.S. military announced Thursday that another 10 service members tested positive after arriving from the United States since late April. In northeastern Japan, Misawa Air Base commander Col. Jesse Friedel designated 19 prefectures where vaccinated individuals may travel but unvaccinated individuals may not, according to a base Facebook post Wednesday. Another 11 are off-limits to everyone at Misawa and the remainder are open for travel to anyone.