When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago in Hiroshima, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the small, rural island of Ninoshima.
The two airmen flying the fighter were uninjured in the emergency landing.
The military buildup is meant as a deterrence to China’s increasingly assertive maritime actions in the area.
Four Japanese troops were injured when a device suddenly exploded at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at the U.S. Air Force base on Okinawa.
