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“YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Japanese officials visited a training facility at this airlift hub in western Tokyo where firefighting foam likely overflowed into stormwater drains last summer.
The Aug. 30 leak of thousands of gallons of water was probably tainted with PFAS, so-called ‘forever chemicals.’
On Oct. 3, U.S. authorities notified the Japanese government of the spill ‘since it was highly likely’ that the water flowed outside the facility, according to a statement last month from Japan’s ministries of Defense, Foreign Affairs and the Environment.”…