The US military has reportedly conducted field experiments of biological
weapons in the Japanese island of Okinawa in the early 1960s.
A
Japanese news agency has said such tests were conducted at least a dozen
times between 1961 and 1962. It added that Washington released
rice-blast fungus over paddy-fields. The report says the US is believed
to have had China and Southeast Asia in mind while developing such
crop-harming agents. The fungus is estimated to destroy enough rice to
feed 60 million people each year. Okinawa was under US rule until 1972
following World War Two. The United States is currently operating a
military base on the island.
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