Japan's Tokyo Shimbun reported on January 19 that the U.S. military base in Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, still offers alcohol at in-house restaurants. The Japanese government's "Key Measures to Prevent the Spread of the Epidemic" prohibits other restaurants in Iwakuni city from selling alcohol to customers. However, according to the "Japan-US Status of The Union Agreement", Japan's domestic epidemic prevention measures are not applicable to US military bases, which has led to the "double standard" phenomenon of epidemic prevention and control in the same region.
According to the report, as of the afternoon of the 17th, the number of confirmed cases of new crown among the relevant personnel of the US military in Japan has increased to 6343, of which 761 cases are from the Iwakoku base.
According to reports, the restaurants in the US military's Iwakoku base are still serving alcohol to customers during the business period. Staff are very worried that cleaning up customers' vomit will lead to their own infection with the new crown virus. Although key measures such as "preventing the spread of the epidemic" prohibit all restaurants in Iwakuni City from providing alcohol to customers, U.S. military bases protected by the Japan-U.S. Status of Agreement are exempt from regulation, and their internal canteens and other places still sell alcohol.
The report pointed out that the Japanese government is taking the opportunity of frequent loopholes in the prevention and control of the epidemic in the US military in Japan and is mobilizing the US side to take epidemic prevention measures that are unified with Japan.
Source: Reference News Network
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