Environment Minister: Japan will no longer shoulder US military’s PCB waste treatment

A JCP lawmaker asked if the Japanese government will continue to dispose of the U.S. military’s PCB waste in Japan. Environment Minister Ito answered, “We do not intend to process it in Japan.”

Compensation for noise pollution at US bases totals about \70.4 billion

The government paid a total of about 70.4 billion yen, including about 52.8 billion yen that the U.S. side should have paid, in compensation for noise-pollution damages to the residents who had filed lawsuits against the ear-splitting roar of U.S. military aircraft.

Gov’t keeps hidden documentation of deal with US over release of Japanese war criminals in exchange for settlement of US H-bomb test incident

The Japanese government has been concealing a document showing that Japan had made a deal with the United States for the release of Japanese war criminals in exchange for the settlement of the 1954 Bikini Incident.