防衛省、米軍に初の立ち入り要求　普天間で有毒剤２２万リットル流出

　防衛省は１４日、米軍普天間飛行場（沖縄県宜野湾市）から有毒物質「ＰＦＯＳ」を含む泡消火剤約２２万７１００リットルが流出したと発表した。同省は同日、在日米軍に厳重に抗議するとともに、日米地位協定の環境調査に関する補足協定に基づき立ち入り調査を要求した。
　日米両政府が２０１５年に環境補足協定に署名してから、立ち入りを求めるのは初めて。同省の伊藤茂樹報道官は記者会見で「大規模な流出事故であり、住民に不安を与える重大な事案と認識している」と説明した。（2020/04/14-18:46）

Japan's Defense Ministry on Tuesday demanded access to the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air base in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, to conduct an on-site investigation over a toxic material spillage there.
   It is the first time that the ministry seeks an on-site investigation based on the Japan-U.S. agreement on environmental stewardship supplementary to the bilateral status of forces pact since the additional accord was inked in 2015.
   The ministry said that some 227,100 liters of fire-extinguishing foam that contains perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, a toxic substance known as PFOS, was spilled at the base in the southernmost Japan prefecture.
   "It is a large-scale spillage incident, and I understand it can give great anxiety to citizens," Shigeki Ito, a spokesman at the ministry, told a press conference Tuesday.
   The ministry lodged a serious protest over the incident to U.S. forces in Japan the same day.