Agent Orange on Okinawa - New Evidence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2133159 |
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| Authors | Jon Mitchell (0009-0008-9832-7939, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 48 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan focus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1557466011012289 |
| OpenAlex | W4410183419 |
| Language | EN |
In September 2011, The Asia-Pacific Journal published my research into the presence of US military defoliants, including Agent Orange, on Okinawa during the 1960s and early '70s. Drawing on the testimonies of over 20 US veterans who had served on the island at a time when it was a forward staging post for the war in Vietnam, the article catalogued the storage, spraying and burial of these dioxin-tainted chemicals on 14 American installations from the Yambaru jungles in northern Okinawa to Naha Port in the south. Despite this large number of firsthand accounts, however, the Pentagon continues to deny that military defoliants were ever on the island
Agent Orange · Archaeology · Biology · Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment · Computer Science · History · Horticulture
| Highly cited | No |
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