[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: "PCBs and Agent Orange at Kadena Air Base, " Okinawa, Japan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military Contamination on Okinawa: PCBs and Agent Orange at Kadena Air Base

by Jon Mitchell
Asia-Pacific Journal
March 24, 2014.

In January, U.S. service members and their families stationed on Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, rallied together to demand an investigation into a dioxin dumpsite located near two Department of Defense schools.1

For decades, Kadena Air Base has been the largest US Air Force (USAF) installation in the Pacific region - and this dioxin usage has taken its toll on the health of the land, nearby residents and on-base service members.

The Pentagon is notoriously secretive as far as military pollution on Okinawa is concerned2 - it allows neither the Japanese government nor Okinawa officials to  conduct environmental checks on its installations - but now two U.S. government documents offer a glimpse behind the wire.

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For the entire article, see
http://japanfocus.org/-Jon-Mitchell/4096

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