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Japan Civilian Medical Advocacy

In Japan, civilian feds say health care crisis still isn’t fixed

Our readers in Japan respond to a recent Federal News Network interview with the director of the Defense Health Agency — telling us the civilian employee…

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In this Sept. 23, 2001 photo, flags of U.S. and Japan flutter in U.S. Kadena Air Base on the southern island of Okinawa in Japan. An American sailor has tapped a cloud-based technology for mobile phones to make it easier to have volunteers take turns driving drunk friends home, an initiative that has curtailed drunken driving among the Navy ranks. The effort, tested at the Naval Sea Systems Command in Charleston, South Carolina, from February, 2016 could also help ease tensions on the southwestern Japanese island of Okinawa, where most of the U.S. troops in Japan are assigned. (Kyodo News via AP) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORY

Congress nudges DoD toward fixing serious health care shortfalls in Japan

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‘More people are going to die’: DoD civilians in Japan face health care access crisis

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