An explosion last month at a munitions storage facility on Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, occurred when Japanese soldiers accidentally detonated a fuse on a World War II-era anti-tank shell, Japan’s ...

Staff-Sergeant Shoham Menahem, Sergeant Shlomo Yakir Shrem, and Sergeant Yuliy Faktor all served in the Armored Corps 401st Brigade. Twenty-one-year-old St.-Sgt. Shoham Menahem, 20-year-old Sgt.

YAESE, Okinawa — Japanese troops demonstrated a new, explosion-proof container Wednesday that improves safety during the removal of unexploded U.S.-made ordnance left over from World War II. The demo ...

The blast occurred when a tank containing byproducts from oil drilling operations exploded and caught fire. Fire crews were then dispatched to the site, near the General Motors Proving Ground, at ...