Jon Mitchell (journalist)

Jon Mitchell is a Welsh journalist and author residing in Yokohama, Japan. Mitchell has written widely about Okinawa, especially on issues created by the ongoing presence of the United States Armed Forces.[1] He was awarded the inaugural Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan's Freedom of the Press Lifetime Achievement Award for this work in 2015.[1][2]

For other people named Jon Mitchell, see Jon Mitchell (disambiguation).

Work

Mitchell is a visiting researcher at the International Peace Research Institute of Meiji Gakuin University.[3] He is a regular contributor for The Japan Times[1] and an associate and contributing editor to The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.[4] He is a special correspondent for the Okinawa Times.[3] Investigative journalism and human interest stories on environmental contamination and the impact of military herbicides such as Agent Orange on Okinawa are frequent subjects of his writing. He is the author of three Japanese language books about US military contamination: Tsuiseki: Okinawa no Karehazai (Chasing Agent Orange on Okinawa) (Koubunken, 2014), Tsuiseki: Nichibeichiikyoutei to Kichikougai (Military Contamination and the U.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement) (Iwanami Shoten, 2018) and Eien no Kagakubusshitsu: Mizu no PFAS Osen (Forever Chemicals: How PFAS Poisons Japan and the World) (Iwanami Shoten, 2020).[5][6] In 2020, Rowman & Littlefield published Mitchell's Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange.[7] In April 2019, Okinawa International University, Ginowan City, opened the Jon Mitchell Collection to the public, consisting of more than 5500 pages of Department of Defense and CIA documents related to Okinawa.[8][9]

Awards and recognition

References
  1. "Japan Times contributor Mitchell among winners of FCCJ's first Freedom of the Press awards". japantimes.co.jp. The Japan Times. 4 May 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  2. Ryall, Julian (2 June 2015). "The first annual FCCJ Freedom of the Press Awards celebrated people and organizations that continue to take on difficult and sensitive issues". fccj.or.jp. Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  3. Mitchell, Jon (18 July 2016). "特約通信員　ジョン・ミッチェル氏" [Authorized correspondent Mr. Jon Mitchell] (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 August 2016. Okinawa Times, Inc., has signed a special agreement contract with British journalist Jon Mitchell... Mitchell has covered environmental problems and issues of the US forces in Japan. Original articles will be written in English and published in Japanese. Jon Mitchell was born in Wales in 1974 and became a journalist. He came to Japan in 1998 and covers pollution problems at Okinawa US military bases. In 2015, he received the inaugural freedom of the press "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. Mitchell authored (Tracking) "Chasing Agent Orange on Okinawa" and is a Meiji Gakuin University International Peace Research Institute researcher.
  4. About Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. retrieved 8 August 2016
  5. Mitchell, Jon (26 May 2016). "Report: American Military 'Poisoning' Okinawa For Years". The Takeaway (Interview). Interviewed by John Hockenberry. New York: WNYC.
  6. Turner, Robin (20 October 2015). "Welsh journalist campaigns for 'truth' over Japan's Vietnam Agent Orange stocks". walesonline.co.uk. Wales Online. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  7. Ramirez, Rachel (10 October 2020). "'Poisoning the Pacific': New book details US military contamination of islands and ocean". theguardian.com. The Guardian. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  8. Moronaga, Yuji (8 May 2019). "U.S. records reveal extent of pollution at bases in Japan". Asahi Shimbun.
  9. Mitchell, Jon (15 May 2019). "The FOIA and the Study of US Policy on Okinawa and Japan". Asia-Pacific Journal. 17.
  10. "Bard of a Broken Country". walesonline.co.uk. Wales Online. 27 March 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  11. Kosaka, Kris (9 October 2011). "Hymns for Human Potential". japantimes.co.jp. The Japan Times. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  12. McGlinchey, Afric (7 November 2011). "'March and After' by Jon Mitchell". sabotagereviews.com. Sabotage Reviews. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  13. Mitchell, Jon (18 March 2014). "Military Contamination on Okinawa: PCBs and Agent Orange at Kadena Air Base". apjjf.org. The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (Volume 12, Issue 12, Number 1, Mar 2014). Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  14. "Lifetime award for journalist who started career with school paper at Olchfa in Swansea". southwales-eveningpost.co.uk. South Wales Evening Post. 13 May 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
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