The Miyazaki airport, located at the southeast end of Kyushu island, was a base for the Imperial Japanese Navy until the end of WWII ... bombs dropped by the US military have previously been ...

Miyazaki Airport is located on land where an airfield for the Imperial Japanese Navy was built in 1943. The US military conducted fierce air raids on it during the war and later captured it.

a bomb dropped in the later stages of World War II didn't explode for nearly 80 years at Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki. The bomb that created a crater on the former military airfield taxiway when ...

Miyazaki Airport was built in 1943 as a former Imperial Japanese Navy flight training ... unexploded bombs dropped by the U.S. military during World War II have been unearthed in the area, Defense ...

A potentially catastrophic explosion of a World War II-era ... Miyazaki Airport has prompted the government to undertake an urgent search for unexploded ordnance at airports across Japan.

(Mainichi/Atsushige Nakamura) KIKUYO, Kumamoto -- The increasing military use of a civilian airport in southwest Japan, thought to be for contingency drills with China in mind, is sparking local ...

Tokyo (CNN) — Don’t freak out when you try to board a flight to this southwestern Japanese prefecture and the destination on the ticket says “Hello Kitty” — you’re definitely on the ...