[CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES, GLOBAL: Agent Orange burials reported at former Hamby Air Field, Okinawa, Japan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Agent Orange buried at beach strip?
U.S. veteran fears toxin now beneath popular civilian area

By JON MITCHELL
Japan Times
November 30, 3011

Dozens of barrels of the toxic defoliant Agent Orange were buried in  
the late 1960s beneath what is now a busy neighborhood in the central  
Okinawa Island town of Chatan, near Araha Beach, according to a  
former U.S. soldier who has recently pinpointed the location thanks  
to a 1970 map of a U.S. base obtained by The Japan Times.

The alleged burial took place in 1969 when the area was part of the  
U.S. Hamby Air Field, but since its return to civilian use in 1981  
the area has been redeveloped into a sightseeing area. Nearby today  
are restaurants, hotels and apartment buildings on a street running  
parallel to popular Araha Beach.

Recently there have been several other claims concerning the burial  
of Agent Orange within U.S. military installations in Okinawa, but  
this is the first time a site has been identified on civilian land,  
which may pave the way for independent environmental tests to be  
conducted.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111130a5.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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