For more than 70 years, US military operations have been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances including radioactive fallout, nerve agent and dioxin-tainted Agent Orange. Hundreds of thousands of service members, their families and local residents have been exposed to these poisons - but the US government has persistently tried to hide the damage and refused to help victims. Based on 12,000+ pages of documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act and interviews with military whistleblowers and survivors, this book reveals the enormous extent of contamination and the lengths the Pentagon will go to conceal it.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 240 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-5381-3033-9 • Hardback • July 2020 • $24.95 • (£15.95)
978-1-5381-3034-6 • eBook • July 2020 • $23.50 • (£15.95) (coming soon)
Series:Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
Subjects:History / Asia / Japan, Science / Environmental Science, Political Science / Public Policy / Military Policy

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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 help 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.