Near the Miyazaki airport last week, a World War II bomb exploded. As a precaution, all flights were temporarily canceled at the time. No one was injured in the explosion. Miyazaki is the capital of Miyazaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

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

The explosion of a World War II-era bomb at a Japanese airport this week has prompted the government to do a wider search for other possible unexploded bombs at airports that were targeted during the conflict.