Military police cordoned off part of the high school at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo on Tuesday following the second false bomb threat in less than a week.
The base said it found nothing at an outdoor water fountain at the school — the location where the message, written in English, said the bomb was planted — or its vicinity.
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