Breaking: Explosion at the U.S. military facility in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

This has just happened.

Video from the explosion:



Amid the rising tensions in North Korea, now this. Not saying it was them, obviously, but suspicious nonetheless.

Article about the explosions: www.wsoctv.com...

Edit: Can't seem to link the video, here's the link www.youtube.com...=22


Edit: More videos of the explosion www.youtube.com...

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Edit: Pictures of the explosions: twitter.com... twitter.com...




Edit: Location of the explosion: i.imgur.com...


Edit: @Terror_Monitor on Twitter: "#JAPAN
#UPDATE: Fire Reportedly Occurred In A Storage That Holds Cylinders With Oxide,& That Let To The Enormous Explosions @News_Executive" twitter.com...

Edit: @RT_Com : "No evacuation over blasts at US #Sagami Depot facility, fire crews putting out fire on.rt.com... #Kanagawa " twitter.com...

Its just another gasexplosion

I find all the explosions as of late, quite odd. I cant say its terrorism related but it is weird.
Someone should start a thread on all the explosions and all the possible targets. Who what why when where. See if we can connect the dots, if any.

originally posted by: Thorsen
This has just happened.

Here you go.

a reply to: Thorsen


Sounds like munitions going off.

No magazines reporting, odd ?

a reply to: Thorsen

Again, things that make you go hmmm.

a reply to: shaneslaughta

ive connected them, but i cant tell

a reply to: CharlieSpeirs

Thanks, still getting used to the ATS video embedding thing.

There are photos of the explosions here:
twitter.com...
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Looks like homegrown extremists. Not the first time they've done something like this.

A spokesman for police in Kanagawa prefecture said two steel pipes measuring about 50 centimeters long were found planted in the ground with electric cables in a field less than a kilometer from Camp Zama. Police later found in a nearby field what appeared to be projectiles that were believed to have been fired from the pipes.

www.wsj.com...

I call this a human misstake, nice going.

RT now reporting: www.rt.com...

It can't be just me who finds the timing of the explosions considering the NK/SK tensions plus the reports of the 50+ missing submarines odd. I mean, there MIGHT be a connection, right?

a reply to: Thorsen

Japanese extremists have attacked US facilities in the past and probably will as long as they're there. Most of the North Korean subs are small short range boats designed to infiltrate the South and couldn't reach Japan.

hmmm, lots of bombs and explosions going off lately.

originally posted by: Thorsen
This has just happened.

Video from the explosion:

Amid the rising tensions in North Korea, now this. Not saying it was them, obviously, but suspicious nonetheless.

Article about the explosions: www.wsoctv.com...

Edit: Can't seem to link the video, here's the link www.youtube.com...=22

Edit: Another video of the explosion www.youtube.com...

Edit: Pictures of the explosions: twitter.com... twitter.com...

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Thorsen

Japanese extremists have attacked US facilities in the past and probably will as long as they're there. Most of the North Korean subs are small short range boats designed to infiltrate the South and couldn't reach Japan.

To be honest I can barely see NK facing SK alone, let alone with with Japan and the US on SK's back (Not that they wouldn't already be anyway), so it would be way too crazy for them to be behind this, but I just found it too much of a coincidence for me not to mention it.

i.imgur.com... Location where the explosions happened.

originally posted by: Zaphod58
Looks like homegrown extremists. Not the first time they've done something like this.

A spokesman for police in Kanagawa prefecture said two steel pipes measuring about 50 centimeters long were found planted in the ground with electric cables in a field less than a kilometer from Camp Zama. Police later found in a nearby field what appeared to be projectiles that were believed to have been fired from the pipes.

www.wsj.com...

We should invade and occupy their country!!

*looks around*

a reply to: gortex
That's what I thought. It's bad enough but at least it wasn't anything like what happened in China. I hope nobody was killed.

I was expecting this to be another accidental explosion. You don't really hear of terrorism or extremism much in Japan. What is their motive for doing something like this ? I hope no one was injured.

a reply to: Thorsen

Amid the rising tensions in North Korea, now this. Not saying it was them, obviously, but suspicious nonetheless.

Puhleese…

Yah, if its a 'US military base' in Japan (those don't exist by the way), then that is sympathetic detonation of stored munitions.

One in Iraq…