[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: "U.S. base information gathered for Okinawa [Japan] environmental records to plan smooth use of returned land"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S. base information gathered for Okinawa environmental records to plan smooth use of returned land


Ryukyu Shimpo
June 28, 2017 

The Okinawa Prefectural Department of Environmental Affairs has prepared foundational materials titled “U.S. Base Environmental Records”, which contain information regarding the use history of and accidents involving environmental pollution at U.S. military facilities in Okinawa including bases that have already been returned, and posted these materials on the official prefectural homepage on June 26. It is the first time that the use history of land, categorized by facility, has been collected in an effort to provide unified information in a database. The goal of this is to facilitate smooth land-use planning for U.S. military facility land that will be returned in the future.

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In Okinawa, there have been many cases in which contamination was discovered on land returned by the U.S. military after the land was returned, such as the case of barrels containing dioxins and other harmful substances being found buried in a soccer field in Okinawa City. However, measures to return the land to its original state have been inconsistent.

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For the entire article, see
http://english.ryukyushimpo.jp/2017/07/07/27265/

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