TOKYO -- Japan will inspect airports built on former military airfields for old explosive devices, the transportation ministry said Thursday, a day after a suspected World War II-era bomb exploded ...
The 500-pound bomb was embedded in the ground under a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in southwest Japan. The airport’s CCTV cameras captured the blast. While a civilian airport today, the site opened as ...
Self-Defence Forces and police confirmed the bomb weighed 225kg and assured no further danger post-investigation. Miyazaki Airport, a former Imperial Japanese Navy site, has a his ...