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Jon Mitchell

Jon Mitchell is a British journalist and author based in Japan. He is a special correspondent for the newspaper, Okinawa Times.Awards

2015 - Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan's Freedom of the Press

Lifetime Achievement Award
2021 - Second Place in the Society of Environmental Journalists' Rachel Carson Environment Book Awards.
2023 - Japan Congress of Journalists' Award for Excellence.
2023 - Third Place in the Society of Environmental Journalists' Outstanding Beat Reporting (Large Newsroom).
2023 - Waseda Ishibashi Tanzan Journalism Grand Prize for public service.Books

2014 -  Tsuiseki: Okinawa no Karehazai (Koubunken)
2018 -  Tsuiseki: Nichibei Chiikyoutei to Kichi Kougai (Iwanami Shoten)
2020 - Eien no Kagaku Busshitsu - Mizu no PFAS Osen (co-author) (Iwanami Shoten)
2020 - Poisoning the Pacific (Rowman & Littlefield)
2023 -  Jouhoujiyuuhou de Shakai o Kaeru!  (Iwanami Shoten)

Since 2021, Mitchell has co-directed two documentaries for Okinawa TV station, Ryukyu Asahi Housou, about environmental issues, including Nuchi nu Miji - Okinawa's Water of Life (2022),

a winner in the Japan Congress of Journalists' annual awards and Waseda Ishibashi Tanzan Journalism Grand Prize for public service. In 2023, Mitchell and co-director, Shimabukuro Natsuko, screened Nuchi nu Miji at five US cities, supported by Harvard University's Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Brown, University of Connecticut, NYU, and George Washington University.

Mitchell's research has also featured in reports for the US Congress and been the focus of debate in the Japanese parliament.