Poisoning the Pacific by Jon Mitchell
For decades, the US military has been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances. Thousands of service members, their families, and local residents have been exposedbut the US has hidden the damage and refused to help victims. This book reveals the enormous extent of contamination and the lengths the Pentagon will go to conceal it.Jon Mitchell is an investigative journalist with the Okinawa Times and winner of the 2015 Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan's lifetime achievement award for press freedom. His work has featured in reports for the US Congress and Japanese parliament; it has also helped US veterans exposed to contamination in Japan to win compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs. US authorities—including the State Department and Department of Defense—have repeatedly attempted to block Mitchell’s work, prompting condemnation from international press freedom groups. He lives in Japan.
John W. Dower is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781538130339 |
| ISBN 10 | 1538130335 |
| Title | Poisoning the Pacific |
| Author | Jon Mitchell |
| Series | Asia Pacific Perspectives |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Year published | 2020-10-12 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Winner of Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, Second Place 2021 |
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