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A regional airport in Japan closed on Wednesday after an undetonated bomb likely dropped by the U.S. in World War II exploded, canceling dozens of flights though causing no injuries, Japanese ...

TOKYO, Oct 2 (Reuters) - A regional airport in southwest Japan was closed on Wednesday after a U.S. bombshell, likely dropped during World War Two to stem "kamikaze" attacks, exploded near its ...

After the Vietnam war it was taken over by communists. Japan began invading China well before World War II. In 1931 they took over Manchuria and set it up as a separate country called Manchukuo ...

An aerial view taken from a helicopter shows a crater from an explosion after a likely WW2-era bomb exploded, on a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan Oct. 2, 2024.

Tyler Smith, a recreation planner from San Francisco, recently climbed a forested mountainside in western Tokyo to honor the ...

Japan was one of the greatest naval powers during World War II when it fielded over 20 aircraft carriers until the end of the war. However, the country scrapped all of its carriers after its ...

An American bomb dropped on Japan during World War II recently exploded after lying dormant for roughly 80 years. The 500-pound bomb detonated on Wednesday at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan.

Elections for Japan’s lower house are usually a foregone conclusion, with the conservative LDP dominating the country’s post-World War II political ... dropped after it was rebuffed by the ...

Reports from Japan, quoting defense officials in deep ... as “Reppu” (Strong Wind/Gale), after a World War II Imperial Japanese Navy fighter. A Kyodo exclusive story, relying on “interviews ...