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The following is a personal story submitted to Civilian Exposure and published as part…

Three U.S. Army veterans of a nuclear weapons base in Okinawa have filed claims with the Veterans Administration for cancers associated with radiation exposure. Since January, 2020, the Japanese Defense Ministry has been removing a large swath of soil from the former nuclear weapons storage area in Henoko Village, but has refused a request from the local Diet representative from Okinawa to test it for radioactive contamination. This threatens the safety of local residents, and denies important information to the veterans filing VA claims.

A fire suppression system in an aircraft hangar discharged a massive volume of toxic firefighting foam from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa on April 10.

In 1945, the Truman administration knew that the Japanese government was trying to negotiate…

I was in the Marine Corps and stationed in Okinawa at Camp foster in 1972-73. I was an auto mechanic/driver in a transportation unit while serving at Camp Foster. In addition, I was intermittently in the middle of the water contamination at Camp Lejeune from 1971-73.

I’m a former Marine. In 1971, I was in the Naval Hospital at Camp…

I was a dependent wife married to an active duty Marine. When he was…

I joined the Marines in April 1978 at 17 years old. Spent three months…

The following is a personal story submitted to Civilian Exposure and published as part…

The following video features a press conference and conversation with Jon Mitchell about the extent of military contamination in Japan and tools used to uncover and shed light on the story. Jon Mitchell is a Special Correspondent for Okinawa Times and an Award Winner of FCCJ’s Freedom of the Press Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also chief contributor to our Okinawa section and esteemed member of the Civilian Exposure Journalist Advisory Board.