Buried World War II bomb explodes at Japanese airport, cancels dozens of

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Nearly 80 years later, the war in Japan is still being fought.

An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights but no injuries, Japanese officials said. …

Officials said an investigation by the Self-Defense Forces and police confirmed that the explosion was caused by a 500-pound U.S. bomb and there was no further danger. They were determining what caused its sudden detonation.

The crater itself, thankfully, was not that big:

…but the explosion was pretty impressive!

Miyazaki Airport “was built in 1943 as a former Imperial Japanese Navy flight training field from which some kamikaze pilots took off on suicide attack missions.”

The Japanese Defense Ministry noted that “a number of unexploded bombs dropped by the U.S. military during World War II have been unearthed in the area.”