The US Embassy in Tokyo received the threats by telephone last month, with several phone calls made by an English –speaking man the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported, citing a Tokyo police official. The threats also targeted the US consul general in Okinawa, Alfred Magleby, according to the Yomiuri and other Japanese and US media reports. Okinawa island is known in Japan as host to the bulk of US service personal stationed in the country.