US EditionSeveral Japanese military members injured in explosion at U.S. Kadena Air Base in Okinawa
- On June 9, 2025, four Japanese soldiers were injured when a blast occurred at a facility housing unexploded wartime ordnance on Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan.
- The accident occurred while soldiers were removing rust from ordnance stored at a facility managed by Okinawa prefecture to identify bombs, amid thousands of unexploded devices remaining on the island.
- The injured soldiers sustained finger and hearing injuries, and local officials confirmed no life-threatening conditions or evacuation orders followed the explosion around 11:20 a.m.
- From April 2023 through March 2024, teams removed close to 22 tons of World War II artillery from Okinawa, while Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi assured that the disposal efforts will continue steadily.
- This incident marks the first explosion since 1974 involving Japan’s unexploded ordnance disposal unit and highlights ongoing risks from remaining wartime bombs on Okinawa, which hosts most U.S. bases in Japan.
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Four members of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force were injured this Monday following an unexploded ordnance explosion while carrying out bomb deactivation work at Kadena Air Base, the U.S.’s main military facility in Asia-Pacific, which it shares with the Japanese Navy. READ ALSO Japan could get rid of Treasury bonds if Trump does not review its tariffs The incident occurred at 1130 local time in a temporary unexploded ordnance warehouse run by …
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By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent, Worthy News TOKYO (Worthy News) – An explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa injured four Japanese soldiers, in the first such accident in decades, the military said. While not life-threatening, the four soldiers sustained finger injuries when working at a facility that belongs to Okinawa prefecture and temporarily store…
An explosion at a Japan Self-Defense Forces weapons depot inside the U.S. military's Kadena Air Base in southern Japan's Okinawa Prefecture has injured four people. It is believed to be an unexploded World War II-era bomb.
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TOKYO — An explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa injured four Japanese soldiers, though the injuries are not life-threatening, officials said Monday.The four soldiers sustained finger injuries while working at a facility that belongs to Okinawa prefecture and temporarily stores unexploded ordnance, mostly from wartime and found on the island, local officials said. One of…
A powerful explosion rocked a warehouse at a US air base on the Japanese island of Okinawa on Monday morning, injuring at least four soldiers, local media sources said.
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