Agent Orange Okinawa documentary

This is the English-language version of Defoliated Island, a Japanese
award-winning documentary about the usage of Agent Orange on Okinawa
during the Vietnam War. Produced by Okinawa TV station, QAB, the show won national acclaim in Japan when it was first aired in May 2012.

[@EagleSpy-fh1zl]

my husband served there when in vietnam and died from cancer two years ago at the age of 57. The government needs to step up. Thank you Jon Mitchell for all the work.

[@TaunyaCoxEtsy1]

My Dad was stationed in Okinawa and he did 2 tours of Vietnam. I have numerous internal birth defects. I look healthy on the outside but I have had a very difficult life due to these birth defects.

[@thehotsungA]

Same with me except my father was a South Vietnamese Soldier and I am his son. Chemical warfare should never be used no matter what shape or from it take place in.

[@sakuranebula]

After watching this, I'm feeling very lucky. My mother who is Okinawan, lived there while Agent Orange was highly used there. Then she moved to Camp LeJeune while she was pregnant with me, and drank the water the whole pregnancy. I've already gotten two calls from the gov't asking about my current health due to the water at Camp LeJeune.

[@willybach60]

This is a very useful video and I am very strongly empathetic with all the people who have been exposed to these horrible chemicals and suffer health problems as a result. One correction I would make: these defoliants were not just developed to clear the view through jungle canopies so that the adversaries could be seen. That was a lie and the defoliants were not particularly effective in doing this. Rather, from the very first experiments by people like the British scientist, Geoffrey E. Blackman in the 1930s and 40s, the purpose was the destruction of food. Claims were made that they were only spraying the food of the guerrilla fighters, these claims were also lies. The real purpose was the destruction of food and crops belonging to civilian populations, to cause starvation and to force them out of their homes (which were destroyed by burning) and to incarcerate them in concentration camps behind barbed wire with armed guards. The camps were variously called Strategic Hamlets or New Villages. When even these extreme measures did not succeed in enabling the US to prevail in Indochina, they resorted to mass exterminations and called this the Phoenix Program. I recommend Adam Curtis' video documentary 'How to Kill a Rational Peasant' I am sorry if some people were clinging to the belief that some good came of the defoliant programme. No good came from it and millions of lives have been ruined, including those of Vietnamese babies born with unimaginable deformities, and there were other casualties too. They could have avoided much of the damage done to their own troops, and allies, had they paid attention to how poisonous TCCD is, but they pretended that the chemicals were safe, which caused those handling the materials to be careless about their own safety. This was another costly lie.

[@walts0042]

...48 minutes worth watching

[@reubensantana1036]

l was stationed on Okinawa camp foster 67-68 ,7 yrs now a diabetic ,4years ago operated for prostate cancer...

[@williamschutz4982]

My father was in Vietnam. He was exposed to agent orange. He now has health problems due to it. I suffer from CMT a condition that is caused by agent orange. The government needs to do it's job and compensate for the pain, and health care cost because of it. I cannot work or really walk for that matter.

[@ergot57]

Rodney Rubisoff Air/Cav 67-69 Nam. Brain Cancer killed him. Gone but not forgotten my brother.

[@jaysteveavis]

I wasi in Okinawa 1969-70. I was a hospital corpsman. I was with the 3rd FSR with the Marine Division. We were in charge of the medical clinic on Camp Foster. It was called Sick Bay for The Marine Division stationed on the island. I feel we were exposed to Agent Orange by the personnel, & in around the clinic. There was abundant foilage that was sprayed all around us. I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 2008. After hearing from other Veterans with stories similar to mine I'm filing a claim with The VA. Actually my Dr. who is a Specialist in Neurology has encourached me to file a claim. My Dr. is a Parkinson's Specialist and has had numerous patients with PD that might have been exposed to Agent Orange. Anyone out there that has a story like mine, please comment. As Veterans we need to help each other, we served ou country and did what we were told, now they are turning their backs on us? Thank You! steve avis

[@jaysteveavis]

It was my husband stephen who was stationed with the 3rd fsr in 69-70 as a hospital corpman, we must have passed one another since I left for 29 palms ca in Nov of 1970 I saw diag with Parkinson in 2009. keep filing the claims. we all must be heard.

[@pslaw]

Excellent film! Thank you so much for bringing this to light.

[@nanomicroart]

Heartfelt Prayers! Thank you for the information.

[@lyleanderson8160]

I was stationed at Andersen AFB Guam in 73 Agent Orange and silvex was used there from 68-78 many vets and dependents are sick and dying to this day their and mine children and grandchildren. Male vets is noted that they can only pass down offspring...Spina bifida my granddaughter had a form of Spina bifida and special needs I suffer ailments Vietnam vets do and did .RIP we will fight the fight too

[@bigshoewc]

Parkinsons has been officially linked to AO, according to the US military.

[@ozzy5150376]

Can anyone tell me if A.O. was "used" in certain areas of Okinawa? My father was stationed there from 1964-1966, he was in the USAF and worked on C-130's and has been suffering medical issues for a long time now. He recalls handling AO, loading it and mopping it off the floors.

[@rhiahl3511]

You state there were 15 areas known to have had AO used along the island it shows a list that is not in English, can anyone translate those? Any one of those Torii Station?

[@karlsblogftw]

they dont show that in the hollywood/american propaganda movies.

[@ArthurEdwards53]

It took 30 years

[@ArthurEdwards53]

It me Thirty years 2 get benefit..

[@josephdevito1320]

walter I also was stationed in okinawa from 1969 to 1970 camp Hansen soon after my return to the states i had a heart attack harding of the arteries also diabetes im now 63 and im making the drs rich i take 16 different pills a day i just tried to put in a claim after 40 years and i get nothing but a run around and they want me to prove how i got sick

[@thehotsungA]

The U.S used it on their own soldiers too sigh.

[@Devildog92Kgm]

I'm currently stationed on MCAS Futenma and my two year tour is just about finished here on island. Thank you for this enlightening video; I always had a feeling something was off here. May be slightly off topic, but A LOT of planes have been and are spraying chemtrails over this island.

[@iamironman242424]

Does anyone know the title of the song that starts at 0:58?

[@prestonrobert2625]

74 to 76 Camp Kue I hated it so much I volunteered through the stars and stripes to work at Airkuen leper colony. Rewarding in that I got out of military duty. Command didn't like the publicity. Somehow I found myself with new extra duty military type work got to do some yard work spraying mowing. I could go on can't you all know why.

[@TnRebelnFl]

Been there done that seen that @ Hansen 64-65 Have had my clam denied three times .

[@LesterShipMirOleg1992]

You couldn't have put in better words. They never cared about Vieques, Puerto Rico, they would care less about other countries.

[@digitalblasphemy1100]

4:50 WHA WHA WHAAAAAT????

[@robotpanda77]

I think most Japanese would prob see this from a nationalist perspective and not much else. War is not a purely American venture.

[@TheJLJuke]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Parkinson's wouldn't be caused by AO, right? Because it's a chromosomal thing.

[@catsalive1]

Real, humane men went to Canada.

[@user-cj6hz2mz4u]

晚安！