[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Local leaders slam delayed disclosure of PFAS leak at [Yokota] Air Force base in Tokyo, " JAPAN

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Local leaders slam delayed disclosure of PFAS leak at Air Force base in Tokyo

By SETH ROBSON AND HANA KUSUMOTO
Stars and Stripes
June 13, 2025

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — U.S. officials have confirmed that about 250 gallons of contaminated water leaked at this airlift hub in 2023, a disclosure that is drawing sharp criticism from local governments for coming more than two years after the incident. 

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government said in a statement Wednesday it received details about the leak from U.S. officials via the North Kando Defense Bureau, an arm of Japan’s Ministry of Defense, a day earlier. The information was also shared with six municipalities near Yokota: Akishima, Fussa, Hamura, Mizuho, Musashimurayama and Tachikawa. 

The leak happened on Jan. 25, 2023, at the loading dock of the Yokota Community Center, which houses the commissary, base exchange and food court.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2025-06-13/pfas-leak-disclosure-yokota-japan-18107594.html

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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