On the 15th, the day of the end of the war, unexploded bullets were processed in Nishihara Town, Okinawa Prefecture, and the highway passing nearby was temporarily closed.
It is said that about 1900 tons of unexploded ordnance remain in Okinawa even after 76 years have passed since the end of the war, and processing work is continuing.
This June, a 5-inch shell, believed to belong to the US military, was found on the premises of a company in Tokusada, Nishihara-cho.
At around 9:20 am, a member of the Self-Defense Forces used a crane to move the unexploded ordnance into an artificial hole, and when the fuze was destroyed with a signal, an explosion sounded "bon".
As a result of the work, 52 people from 20 households with a radius of 90 meters from the site were evacuated, and some sections of the nearby Okinawa Expressway and Naha Airport Expressway were closed for about 50 minutes.
Morihide Sakihara, the mayor of Nishihara Town, who served as the general manager of the countermeasures headquarters, said, "It has been 76 years since the end of the war, but there are still unexploded ordnance left, and I feel that the postwar period in Okinawa is not over."
It is said that about 1900 tons of unexploded ordnance remain in Okinawa even after 76 years have passed since the end of the war, and processing work is continuing.