Unexploded US Bomb Detonates at Japanese Airport |

[@davibil1842]

well... in Vietnam and Laos, children are educated in basic schools to identify US bombs as they are two of the most bombed places per square meter in history

[@ArchOfficial]

90% of UXO in Vietnam and Laos are soviet AP mines. There's almost no "US bombs" left.

[@MajorGeneralWoff]

@@ArchOfficial Might I ask where did you get these numbers? And where in the source differentiate the UXO country of origins?

[@ArchOfficial]

@@MajorGeneralWoff My personal knowledge. The primary sources are some hundreds of sources. The type of mine is sometimes reported, and you can build trends from that.

[@MajorGeneralWoff]

@@ArchOfficial Ok, could you lead me to those instead? No links though, KZbin deletes them.

[@ArchOfficial]

@@MajorGeneralWoff Vietnam-centric NGOs are a good bet, as is following US spending on UXO removal in Vietnam, as well as just watching videos and viewing images of the types of UXO recovered. You'll need good data analysis skills though, because for example "UXO" accounts for 97% of the pollution, while "landmines" account for 3%, but dud landmines are included in that 97% AFAIK; the type that you can step on and not have explode on you. Activist groups use data manipulation to trick people into thinking the remainder 97% are purely US bomb and artillery UXO, for example.

[@19800910]

When I build my house on unused land outside of Berlin Germany in 2001, it was mandatory that a ammunition team with ground Radar would check the property for any surprises under the sand.

[@kv4648]

The Northern lights showed up really low down once this year in spring. Apparently, it was because the Sun shot a really powerful mass coronal ejection at us. The biggest ones missed us but it did still give these fantastics sights. For some reason barely anyone was talking about them. That's probably why the aurora borealis stories from both of you lined up

[@AcornElectron]

Wasn’t the solar flares, they don’t do that, it was the mass coronal ejections happening at the same time. Edit you could see them a few days ago again because same conditions on the sun.

[@kv4648]

@@AcornElectron thank you for correction

[@H0lland0ates79]

Hmmmm money shot from the sun

[@charleyschoolmaster5155]

Great podcast - - - just wanted to mention that Magome does have a gohei-mochi - mitarashi dango shop, and a soba shop as well. Enjoy !

[@Toe_Merchant]

"In the fiscal year 2022, there were 1,372 unexploded ordnance disposals nationwide in Japan. Okinawa Prefecture accounted for around one-third of the disposals." - keep in mind this probably includes everything from 2000 pound US bombs to grenades or bullet rounds lying around.

[@DovidM]

In France, farmers are still turning up bombs in their fields while plowing.

[@eddgrs9193]

Here in Romania, my farmer uncle had a collection of rifles, from old muskets to ww2 machine guns on the walls of his barn. It was what he collected over the years while working on the fields, and he was part of the anti-Communist resistance after ww2. He also had a crate of ww1 and ww2 shells, mortar rounds and grenades. His place looked almost like that scene from Hot Fuzz. As kids it was always fun to visit, because we'd get a rifle each to play with.

[@MoonGalleon22]

The word for the WWII bombs you're thinking of is probably "Doodlebug"! Every now and again, you get WWII bombs being discovered and disposed of in the UK, too. Also as a teen I was an Air Cadet, and they let us have a few talks with bomb disposal people. Learned that, so long as you can get a license to drive large vehicles and you have the money for it, you CAN buy the same kinds of tanks as them, for personal use!

[@siobhanomalley1968]

I saw the Aurora for the first time the other day! In Sheffield, UK no less! Been wanting to see it my whole life. It was a beautiful pinkish shimmering band across the sky 💖

[@B_T_B]

Saw the Northen lights this year in the South West of England. Was amazin'

[@NefliteArts]

I am from Kiel, Germany, a former Reichskriegshafen, we find bombs nearly every month there ^^'

[@Harminder1]

I know in France they are still collecting material from WW1 it even had its own moniker Ironharvest. From what I can tell on average the amount of unexploded ordnance they find in a year is 150 metric tons. There are parts of France that are red zones which are too dangerous or costly to clear.

[@AnOldYoungPerson]

In the French countryside, they have what are called "Ordance Drop off points". Basically like a bus shelter style pad that farmers and locals drop off, grenades, artillery shells ect that they find while ploughing field or on walks n such. And the French army/police do collection runs across the countryside & dispose of it back at their bases.

[@Crossingt]

​@@AnOldYoungPerson we did a ww1 tour of Belguim and Northern France in 2008. We saw a few big artillery rounds stacked up by the side of the road.

[@tweetyjl68]

Pete has such a great personality, he cracks me up 😂

[@enoraskye6020]

15:10 - I live at around 43 latitude, and there are periodic years where the norther lights are visible here, so I would imagine at the northern most parts of Japan, they'd have the same chance. Again, periodically, so not every year. Like, once or twice every 5 - 10 years.

[@uwu-so6et]

two new videos from chris, hell yea!

[@bibliocharylodis]

Personally, I think the Kumano Kodo beats the Nakasendo but both are nice multi-day hikes. Kumano Kodo is very remote, though, so needs decent planning. (Though it's been a few years since I did it, so things might have changed on that front.) Nakasendo has train and bus connections easily reachable most days and usually you'll also come through or pass near a town with a konbini or even supermarket. But yeah, having a bit of back up food is never a bad idea.

[@tdannyV2]

I brought a pair of sunglass and the customer service was amazing, they cleaned them, treated the linces with something, gave me a nice bag and cleaning stuff, took about 5-10min and they are best sunglasses I have never owned, and for like 2000 yen i think!

[@muffin9124]

Lithograph - great pull there Pete, have not heard that word for a long time....

[@jaxstar5731]

Saw the Northern Lights from Portslade, East Sussex from my bedroom window. Been visible a few times this year.

[@Rirenzu]

Having followed you since your teaching days on your channel. Is teaching still a reasonable gateway into the country?

[@TheClintonio]

Fuji was easy for me and the lads. I was really energetic by the top and we basically ran down the mountain. I did no prior training but was sufficiently prepared otherwise.

[@thebuckeyegamer]

How did I lose over 45kg? Being over 150kg to start helps with plenty of room to improve. After that? Stopped eating fast food and sugary foods. Stopped drinking my calories (sugar/alcohol). Work out about an hour a day on average. Overall, just got a health report that said I was heading to a bad place and decided that wasn't going to be me. Thanks for reading my story. :)

[@claredonachie5013]

Northern lights were seen in London earlier this year! And I’ve just for a red alert for aurora as I watch this!

[@wehojm7320]

Actually this morning I saw a news report that the northern lights were visible from the northern parts of the UK. Also it was noted that the northern lights were visible from the mountains around LA where there isn’t much light pollution.

[@MoonGalleon22]

Yeah, we got them in parts of the East of England too, so as far south as places like Norfolk and Cambridgeshire! I think you had to be up at stupid o'clock to see them, though.

[@MrMBinder]

Some beaches on the west coast of Denmark regularly get a visit from the military's bomb squad since mines hidden in the sand get uncovered when the wind and water changes. The minefields have been cleared and are officially approved as "safe", but there's still the odd mine laying around.

[@bleumarin1968]

Normandy froggie here, every year, we still find bombs from the 2nd world war that have not exploded, especially on the beaches (the landing ones). Very often they will make them explode in the ocean.

[@elwick_photo]

Northern lights have been visible as far south as Cornwall twice this year. Last one was last night even.

[@Crossingt]

The southern lights have been visible across Western Australia this week for the keen who were up at stupid o'clock.

[@sylvia.s.s.]

4:00 I really feel that is a huge problem in Japan. They can have a normal discussion because they avoid confrontation and they seem to think ANY kind of discussion is a confrontation...

[@ukmaxi]

In the UK you can get glasses made in the same day, but it depends if the opticians is big enough. If it's a small shop they do not have the capacity to do it. I once needed a new pair of glasses in York, ordered them at 10am and collected them at 2pm. Done and dusted.

[@ercanismail3893]

The “northern” lights were visible in Kent and London last night!

[@jakoblarok]

So... I don't know about the old days, but modern EOD is very thorough in their examinations. Also, the builders of the airport may have been given risk warnings about not fully dredging the soil for unexploded ordinance; but there is a great cost with every additional foot of soil raked for bombs. The additional risk that I'm certain they were informed of is that the explosives decay into many different chemical compounds, some of which can accumulate together and create spontaneous detonation points, setting off the bombs sporadically. It seems the government/developers took this risk, or someone failed to communicate the hazards to the local governments. But, as much of an art as it is; "ordinance disposal" is also a science. The singular movie about EOD didn't even do it justice, from my opinion. In my personal experience, Explosive Ordinance Disposable (aka- "bomb squad") is a top-tier career field in the USAF, and probably equally regarded among the other service branches. As a mere 1N0XX, I personally think they warrant the introduction of a [sorry for the redundancy] Warrant officer position for meeting the base-level requirements for the job. I didn't know about the career designation until well after my training as the next most-demanded career field, but that's my White Settlement recruiter's fault. He saw my first attempt at a practice ASVAB at 92 percent, and got enticed by whatever "promotion" the USAF was offering to fulfill my career's billets - rather than letting me know about the exciting and dangerous career that would Perfectly scratch my itch and thrive as an un-diagnosed ADD person. So my advice to the youngling's Do your own research. Never trust the recruiters. Not even when you're trying to come back in for another round of hell...

[@ph89787]

The airport was an old Kamikaze base with a 500-lb bomb. It could have been dropped from not a B-29 but an F4U Corsair, F6F Hellcat, SB2C Helldiver, or TBM Avenger, as the US Navy's Fast Carrier Group (Task Force 58) was conducting raids in the area prior to the Battle of Okinawa.

[@bluesmandingo]

Good vid

[@MatthewOliphant]

Per the 12 things not to do video, would the bomb exploding at the airport still not give you cover for being late?

[@Archchill]

🤣

[@jaxparrow1794]

In Belgrade Serbia, every so often a ww2 bomb appears. Mostly in construction sites.

[@Rickt2445]

I heard bombs are still going off in Europe as well. Just goes to show the long stretching effects of war.

[@fattiger6957]

From WW1! I think, maybe 15 years ago, there was an underground bomb (meant to blow up some WW1 trench) that blew and created a huge crater in some poor French farmer's field.

[@nicholausbuthmann1421]

Roseville Yard in Greater Sacramento and Port Chicago (Benicia, CA) as well because of violent Munitions Accidents from WW II & Vietnam.

[@zoeyc5851]

Heard of someone having a bomb in their garden, crazy

[@LaughingOrange]

France has huge areas where civilians aren't allowed due to old explosives. Some are just regular explosive, and others are chemical weapons. Some of those chemical weapons are expected to take 700 years or so before the area is safe.

[@OllamhDrab]

Yeah, if they don't spoil completely they can in fact get more unstable over time, if disturbed. (An earthquake might actually have contributed to that, not to mention heavy planes passing over a lot. )

[@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas]

Cris doesn't understand how many tons of bombs US dropped on Japan in WW2. It was 15k tons. And with that tonnage there will be large amount of duds even if it was 1% of the tonnage was a dud.

[@TheNerestro]

Don't know about Japan, but iric for Vietnam it was over 30% of all bombs the USA dropped that did not explode. So about that 1%...

[@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas]

@@TheNerestro I was being very conservative. Because still 1.5k tons is a lot of bombs.

[@ArchOfficial]

@@TheNerestro 30% of all munitions, not bombs. They dropped a lot of clusters which have around a 20% failure rate. They have failsafe to explode them after some time. You end up with around 5%~ for 60's US clusters after some of those fail as well. Compare that to soviet RBKs and PFM-1s with around a 30-60% UXO rate.

[@NefliteArts]

okay I always assume you are a way older than me and now I sit here, 1991'er, and am worried about my sense for time and space :D

[@nomiguda]

i basically got whiplash from the juxtaposition of the title and then the intro video

[@billhendricks3143]

Chris, hearing you describe where you grew up,, is it the American equivalent of living in New Jersey ?? Across from NYC?

[@sirBrouwer]

more like living in upstate NY and then look at NYC.

[@AcornElectron]

Pod and Main same day! ❤

[@laurencshouse]

I read the headline and thought, "Oh no, what have we (Americans) done this time??" I obviously hate the presence of war bombs still present in Japan/the world, but I was relieved to hear it wasn't an American tourist screwing up again. 😅

[@DantesGrill]

What? Can't an American citizen bring his pet WW2 bomb on vacation anymore? I swear to God, the world is so full of snowflakes nowadays

[@wolfgangBuonarotti]

"ehm troinna pleh Ahllehn Wehk!!" *smashes that subscribe button*

[@mho...]

Living in Hamburg/ger its normal to find ww2 bombs on basically every big building site! our bomb defusal guys are soo proficient defusing them, that none has detonated afaik! but its crazy how many bombs are still in the ground, from these massive bombings....

[@paultibbles6555]

doodlebug lol

[@TheEpicureanGamer]

The irony because just today here in the UK all trains running from Leeds were cancelled because of an unexploded bomb was discovered nearby presumably dating from WW2

[@ZeNex74]

Northern lights in Kent last night

[@juliar2462]

Back in Poland my home country we had those incidents all the time lol

[@chrisdirs5965]

Soccer!!!!! Reallllllllly Pete

[@nicholausbuthmann1421]

ROSEVILLE YARD, Old Southern Pacific R.R. Yard now U.P. in Roseville, CA Sacramento Metro. Had a truly violent Munitions Explosion in the Early 70's. A train hauling Old WW II Era Ordinance that was going to be dropped on poor Vietnam before Nixon started winding things down. Think it was headed to the Herlong, CA Ammo Dump. It went off long enough that KCRA Channel 3 was able to get its newly back from Vietnam Copter Pilot into the air above it and film the Blast & Shockwaves. Years later when the U.P. took things over in the Late 90's & started revamping the Freight Yard they started discovering unexploded 500 &1000 lbs. bombs from said explosion that freight & Amtrak Passenger Trains had ran over for 20 plus years. Such was caused by a "Hot Box" ( No Dope Jokes Now ) Where the Brass Roller Bearing Melts Down & catches on fire on a Freight Car.

[@wendyon4517]

Driving in Japan is easy. Its a trade-off. The ease and speed of going by train vs the slower freedom to roam in a car. Just getting from A to B vs the experience between point A and B. I live in Kagoshima. My daughter and I drove to Saga because it was just time and gas money. The train was easily double the cost but we'd have done it had the costs been similar.

[@guptacorp]

Abroad should play some football ⚽️ Or at least do a cycle across Japan twice annually to offset some bad eating/ drinking habits 😋 💪

[@guptacorp]

Next Journey Across Japan: Abroad on his bike, with metal detector strapped to handlebars, cycling across rural Japan in search of unexploded ordinances. Invite all usual suspects, including Rizzataro. Needless to say, not everyone survives. As you travel from town to town, educate viewers on local history. Wrap up with explosive music video to blow up itunes charts once more. It's Fantastic idea - hop to it 😅👍

[@gawrkonatsu]

Last time I flew to Japan i received a certificate from my airline that I visited the north pole 😀

[@DanSheps]

My wife went into her local jins and had her glasses the next day or day after I think. It wasn't an emergency though, she might have been able to get them sooner if it was an emergency.

[@SeranaTheStudent]

1:09 constellation Pete? Don't you mean constipation?

[@rechnin6680]

Did you mean the Doodlebug, Pete? Oddly enough, only this week the trains here in the UK were disrupted due to a WWII bomb found near Bradford. And the transport ship you mentioned, is it the SS Richard Montgomery, if so, aren't they planning to dismantle it?

[@stressedpanda7205]

I heard they have, or plan to, cut away part of the upper structure so it doesn't fall into the hold where all the munitions are. So much time has passed that removing the bombs, etc, would be hideously dangerous.

[@-a6833]

🎶🎶I had my endoscopy in Sendai Where the doctor was on standby But he resembled more a samurai As he choked me screaming "Banzai" He shoved the camera down my throat And I could no longer scream or emote I uttered but a single note as I choked By the hands of the man in the coat But the mood soon changed, to one of abhor There was no printerpaper anymore I had my endoscopy in Sendai Where the doctor soon said goodbye🎶🎶 You know what? I think that might actually work as a song

[@tardvandecluntproductions1278]

Funny story, this happened at the same day when a UK 500-pounder bomb got unarmed and removed, like 700 meters from my house!

[@kevinp8882]

Pete’s North American English gets better each podcast

[@omniglot]

I think the word Pete was groping for is dooblebug.

[@stressedpanda7205]

I think you mean 'doodlebug'.

[@Thekowaikaiju]

Wait, how do you unexplode something?

[@krishnam1]

Years from now, when it's revealed that Chris has been in the pocket of "Big Tatami" for years, we'll all have to come out in support of poor Pete.

[@colinmathie2710]

Soccer, your English Pete for god sake, its football!! 🤦‍♂

[@baeber]

soccer

[@colinmathie2710]

@@baeber football!

[@fattiger6957]

I think that's grounds enough for the Ministry of Immigration to revoke his citizenship and ship him off to America.

[@soapycheesee]

You're*

[@ffwast]

Cope and seethe

[@olly_profcat]

Glad I didnt get that private MRI in the NE then XD waited for the NHS, they decided not to tell me about my results for 4months If its anything Pete im 24 and I found out I have degenerative disc disease and osteoarthritis in my facets 😂 now I get MC (no not minecraft)

[@jack7250]

@AbroadInJapanPodcast Here's a question. Is there something within Japan that is rich with history and cultural relevance that you personally don't really care for/find too boring to make a video on. Purely hypothetical examples would be like Sumo wrestling, Kabuki theater, rakugo, etc.

[@richardsoane6192]

Buzz Bomb ?

[@MrFfrenchh]

Chooseday lol

[@stevejacklin4622]

Duddlebug

[@brianuuuSonicReborn]

Pete is not American why is he saying "soccer"

[@RuggeD_]

Englishman saying soccer instead of football... The world is ending...

[@SAPPERBRAVO]

Lol mate did you just pull a "Unilad/Lad Bible" clickbait for the title here "US bomb exploded Japanese airport" 😂

[@LaughingOrange]

It was a US bomb, at a Japanese airport. Only missing detail is that the bomb was from WW2.

[@SAPPERBRAVO]

@@LaughingOrange lol we're all well aware. Was a simple piss take. 😉

[@Faustrecht2010]

"... Unexploded US Bomb ..." Well, that's normal bussiness. Arround 10% of all bombs, grenades etc of WW I and WWII didn't detonate (more from WWI). Thats millions and millions of them sticking & ticking somewhere in the ground. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexploded_ordnance