. TOKYO Reports of new coronavirus cases in Japan’s capital fell to their lowest level since November while those in South Korea’s largest city spiked after the recent New Year holiday there. New infections in South Korea topped 600 per day after the Lunar New Year weekend on Feb. 12-14, the country’s interior minister, Jeon Hae-cheol, said at a meeting Monday in Seoul. That number had fallen to 313 by midnight Sunday, according to the Central Disease Control Headquarters. Seoul recorded 102 new patients and Gyeonggi province reported 116. It is home to Camp Humphreys, the largest U.S. base in the country.
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Japan and the United States have agreed to keep Tokyo s costs to host U.S. forces stationed in the country at around the current level for fiscal 2021 following the expiration of a five-year deal, the Japanese foreign minister said.
By SETH ROBSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 17, 2021 YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan – The body of a U.S. civilian reported missing more than two weeks ago was discovered Tuesday in the housing tower where he and his wife lived at Yokota, according to the Air Force. Trevor Balint, 34, of Hubbard, Ohio, the spouse of a Defense Department computer programmer and analyst, disappeared suddenly Feb. 1, prompting a search of the base from the ground and the air. His face appears on fliers, fading now, posted everywhere at Yokota, the headquarters in western Tokyo of U.S. Forces Japan. His body was found in the east side housing area around 11 a.m. Tuesday, according to a statement on the base website Wednesday. Balint, a former substitute teacher at Defense Department schools, was pronounced dead at the scene by medical personnel, according to the base.