Large Evacuation Precedes WWII Bomb Removal in Okinawa

Okinawa, Japan Japanese soldiers safely defused a U.S.-made, 275-lb WWII bomb from a historic villa in Okinawa's capital. According to a city website, more than 2,300 people were evacuated from 760 households and 110 businesses around Nakagusuku Udun in the Shuri district of Naha city prior to the operation.

Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's 101st EOD unit used a crane to move the UXO into a hole, where they defused it without incident, according to a spokesperson with the city's Disaster Prevention and Crisis Management Division.