Note: This article has been corrected. YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan The wife of a former substitute teacher who vanished a week ago from the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo is appealing to the military community for help with the search. Trevor Balint, 34, the spouse of a civilian Defense Department computer programmer, was reported missing Feb. 1. He is 6 feet tall, 170 pounds, with blue eyes and brown hair. Balint worked as a Department of Defense Education Activity substitute teacher until Nov. 18, DODEA-Pacific spokeswoman Miranda Ferguson confirmed in an email Tuesday. Ferguson, who initially described Balint as an active DODEA substitute, wrote that his employment ended at his request. Balint taught high school chemistry and physics, according to his LinkedIn profile.
. TOKYO – The daily number of new coronavirus cases in Japan’s capital city fell Monday to its lowest point in two months. South Korea, meanwhile, reported its lowest daily total since November, and a government official in Seoul said restrictions on social distancing and business closures may ease in the coming weeks. With many U.S. service members taking time off to watch the Super Bowl, reports of new coronavirus infections over the weekend until 6 p.m. Monday were comparatively low. Bases in Japan reported two and South Korea reported 24 from the previous two weeks. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government on Monday reported another 276 people had contracted the virus, the lowest one-day count since Dec. 7, also a Monday, according to public broadcaster NHK and metro government data.
By ERICA EARL | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 3, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. TOKYO At least two more U.S. military bases in Japan are administering the Moderna vaccine to essential workers, including teachers, bringing them another step closer to getting their installations fully inoculated. Yokota and Misawa air bases are vaccinating teachers and school support staff, commissary workers and other individuals in phase 1b “critical and essential support personnel” of a three-phase Defense Department plan to administer the vaccine, base spokesmen told Stars and Stripes on Wednesday.
By SETH ROBSON | STARS AD STRIPES Published: February 2, 2021 YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan Authorities are searching for a 34-year-old Defense Department substitute teacher last seen Sunday at the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo. “A member of the Yokota community has been reported missing as of February 1, 2021,” Air Force officials said in a message posted Tuesday evening on Yokota’s official Facebook page. Trevor Balint, a dependent in Japan under the status of forces agreement that governs the presence of U.S. military personnel and their families in the country, was last seen entering Yokota, which also serves as the headquarters for the 5th Air Force and the 374th Airlift Wing, by gate guards, according to the message.