I can't help but feel anger. I can no longer trust the U.S. military.

This is what happens when you are a vassal state under occupation.

Cheap propaganda, as also chemical enterprises, private people or real estate and construction companies do that to keep any found or poisonous byproduct substances secretly and as the main reason to save the very expensive costs for decontamination or environmentally safe recycling etc. To put it all only on such incidents or specifically the US military is very far from reality and the problems’ real dimension.

Mr. Kipling and Sven Asai seem to have very different approaches to the report.

Mr. Kipling accepts the content of the mayor’s remarks, as reported here, at face value. He offers nothing to support his acceptance but rather relies on tried and largely untrue claims of servile submission of the Japanese to their more powerful ally.

Sven Asai dismisses the mayor’s remarks as at least partly untrue (Josef Goebbels famously said that the best propaganda is largely true - the “sugar to make the medicine, i.e. poison, go down”). Sven Asai, in contrast to Mr. Kipling, offers some alternative which may be true upon further investigation.

Of these two comments, in my opinion, Sven Asami’s is the superior.

Ah no, not propaganda.

The LDP is in the US' hip pocket to the extent that if Kamiji made a false statement about the US military he would be out on his butt in a second.

Added to that is the US military has already been confirmed to have been guilty of dumping toxic chemicals in various countries around the world where they have bases...they literally produce tons of toxic wastes with all of their activities, and yes those toxic wastes have to go somewhere.

Actually it's much worse- not just Yokosuka, but all throughout Japan where there are US bases...this was reported elsewhere (obviously not here which is why some posters here are oblivious to the facts) 2 years ago-

TOKYO -- An Environment Ministry water quality study has revealed that contamination levels at 37 water sources exceeded provisional national targets, with high levels of two types of chemical compounds suspected to induce cancer found near U.S. military bases and industrial areas throughout Japan.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200619/p2a/00m/0na/020000c

And guess what, the whole Pacific region:

[ The U.S. military presence in the Pacific is generally discussed in terms of geopolitics and strategy. Less prominent are analyses of the human and environmental impact of U.S. military bases and weapons tests. Jon Mitchell, a Japan-based journalist, has long investigated precisely those problems. Mitchell, the author of three Japanese-language books on military contamination outlines the environmental impact of the U.S. post-war military presence in his new book, “Poisoning the Pacific.” ]

https://thediplomat.com/2020/11/how-the-us-military-wound-up-poisoning-the-pacific/

I live just around the corner from Minamata.

The American military bases pollute. It's established. But the tragic story of Okinawa is special.

The independent kingdom of Okinawa was invaded and politically and culturally trashed by the Meiji government.

In World War II Okinawa lost the largest of citizens of any prefecture. The Japanese high command demanded Okinawa's citizens commit suicide rather than surrender.

Okinawa must live with pollution and destruction of its land because of the U.S. military.

I can't help but feel anger. I can no longer trust the U.S. military.

That was my exact feeling when I found out that Saddam Hussein was given the green light by DC to invade Kuwait. Then it got worse when I found out the “babies out of incubators” was all fake news and I could have thrown my life away for government lies. Nothings changed.

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