Hatsunosuke Sakata v. Y. Yoshikawa

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• remanding record, in part, due to BVA’s failure to address arguments advanced by appellant, including sworn testimony
• even if Board considered all evidence and rejected it, Board was required to state precise basis for decision and respond to various arguments of appellant
• the Court held that the Board in its decision making is required by § 7104(a) and 38 C.F.R. § 3.330(a), to consider all evidence of record
• BVA improperly failed to address possibility that sailor’s skin cancer, first diagnosed years after discharge, was caused directly by his in-service exposure to sunlight as a deckhand in the Pacific Theater
• remanded in part for the BVA to consider the issue of direct service connection for appellant’s carcinoma based on excessive exposure to the sun during his tenure as a deckhand in the Pacific Theater
• same as to carcinoma manifest many years after separation

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