A long-buried World War Two bomb exploded in early October at Japan’s Miyazaki Airport. Nearly 80 years after the war ended, bombs that didn’t detonate still turn up nationwide. Two more were found this month near Miyako Airport in Okinawa Prefecture. Another bomb was discovered at a construction site in central Nagoya.
At the airport in Miyazaki Prefecture, a plane passed near the site of the blast just two minutes before the bomb went off — narrowly escaping a major accident.
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Source: NHK News
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