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Fleet lifting some drinking restrictions on sailors in Japan

The U.S. Navy in Japan says it will ease one of its new behavioral restrictions, allowing sailors to once again drink alcohol at home after 10 p.m. All servicemembers in Japan still have to adhere to a curfew imposed after an Okinawa woman was allegedly gang-raped by two sailors in October.
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