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Jon Mitchell

Welsh journalist and author

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Born: 1974
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1.Stated in Library of Congress AuthoritiesRetrieved 2025-06-08
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Citizenship: Japan
Occupation: journalist
, writer

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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. He was awarded the inaugural Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan's Freedom of the Press Lifetime Achievement Award for this work in 2015. In 2021, Mitchell's book, Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange, won Second Place in the Society of Environmental Journalists annual awards for Reporting on the Environment.

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Sex or gender: male
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2025-06-08
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Website: jonmitchellinjapan.com
Family name: Mitchell
Social media followers: 5,153(January 6, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 968097194
4,973(April 21, 2020) x (twitter) numeric user id: 968097194
Given name: Jon

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