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TOKYO, Jan 6 — Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi urged his US counterpart Thursday to consider restricting American troop movement in the country after a surge in Covid cases on bases and surrounding communities. The request to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken comes as virus cases...

TOKYO, Jan 6 — Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi urged his US counterpart Thursday to consider restricting American troop movement in the country after a surge in Covid cases on bases and surrounding communities.

Hayashi called on Blinken to “consider restricting outings to ease worries among local residents, given the situation of coronavirus infections among US forces in Japan”, the statement added. Hayashi said then that the US military was not adhering with Japan’s policy of testing incoming travellers for the virus on arrival, and requiring them to quarantine for two weeks.

 

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