[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: Okinawa, Japan military contamination documents

[Lenny Siegel]

Author: Trove of US Documents on Toxic Substances in Okinawa May Help Veterans’ Claims


By  Matthew M. Burke
Stars and Stripes 
November 25, 2020

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa -- A Welsh journalist in Japan has released a trove of U.S. government documents regarding pollutants at U.S. bases in the Pacific in hopes they will aid veterans seeking compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs for a variety of service-related ailments.

Jon Mitchell, 46, an investigative journalist and contracted correspondent for the Japan Times and Okinawa Times who lives in Yokohama, released over a dozen documents that he uncovered while writing "Poisoning the Pacific: The U.S. Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons and Agent Orange," which was published by Rowman & Littlefield in October.

The document release on Rowman & Littlefield's website for "Poisoning the Pacific" caps off more than a decade of reporting by Mitchell. The documents cover the storage and leakage of chemical weapons, lead in the drinking water at schools on Kadena Air Base and "forever chemicals" like PFOS contamination at Kadena and Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/11/25/author-trove-of-us-documents-toxic-substances-okinawa-may-help-veterans-claims.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
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