[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, GLOBAL: "How Jon Mitchell uncovered the Okinawa [Japan] military exposures"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

How Jon Mitchell uncovered the Okinawa military exposures


Paul Gordon
Association of Health Care Journalists
July 18, 2024

Jon Mitchell is a British journalist and author residing in Japan who has written extensively about Okinawa and the environmental issues created by the ongoing presence of the United States Armed Forces on the island. 

Mitchell received the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan’s Freedom of the Press Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015 for his reporting on human rights issues on Okinawa. And his book, “Poisoning the Pacific”  won second place in the Society of Environmental Journalists‘ Rachel Carson Environment Book Awards. 

Policy and lawmakers have cited Mitchell’s work in official reports; his findings have also aided U.S. veterans in winning compensation for chemical exposure during their time stationed on Okinawa. Mitchell has overcome deliberate attempts from the U.S. State Department and Department of Defense to block his work, which was flagged and shamed by international press freedom groups. 

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For the entire article, see
https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/07/how-jon-mitchell-uncovered-the-okinawa-military-exposures/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@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)

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