Japan Joins US In Europe Travel Alert
The Christian Science Monitor reports:
Japan on Monday issued a travel alert for visitors to Europe, reflecting widening concerns over terror strikes in Europe by militants trained in Pakistan, some of them possibly European citizens.
Tokyo's alert followed a similar one from the United States on Sunday, which drew support from the United Kingdom and France. The UK raised its terror warning to "high" for its nationals in France and Germany after the US announcement. But Germany has said it sees no danger of imminent terror attacks, and German intelligence is skeptical of the warnings, reports Agence-France Presse today.
Japan's alert, issued by its Foreign Ministry, "made no mention of a specific country, but advised its citizens to be cautious when using public transport and visiting popular tourist sites," according to The Guardian. "An official at the ministry said that the highly unusual warning was not prompted by any specific intelligence but by the previous British and American alerts."
A Japanese official also told the Associated Press it was very unusual for Tokyo to issue such an alert, a sign of how seriously the threat is being taken by governments the world over.
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