[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, GLOBAL: Sampling at a landfill used by Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa, Japan

[Lenny Siegel]

U.S. military contaminates Okinawa with PFAS
27 PFAS compounds detected at military landfill site.

Okinawans powerless; caught in superpower struggle.

By Pat Elder 
Military Poisons
October 30, 2023

Okinawa is in the crosshairs of intense superpower confrontation. The U.S. military’s contamination of the land and people is secondary to American security concerns regarding China. The red marker is the site of a landfill used by Kadena Air Base, the largest U.S. military installation in the Asia-Pacific region. The site has alarming levels of PFAS from the American base.

Here, you can see the proximity of the Kadena Air Base runway to the site where we found dangerous levels of PFAS in the leachate flowing from the military’s toxic stew.  The island of Okinawa is severely contaminated with PFAS. 


For years, waste from several U.S. bases has been brought to this location. We tested the liquid leachate here and found 27 varieties of PFAS

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For the entire article, including graphics, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/us-military-contaminates-okinawa-with-pfas

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)