Large explosion reported at U.S. military base in Kanagawa, Japan

[Keit]

This just in apparently: http://www.sott.net/article/300593-Large-explosion-reported-at-US-military-base-in-Kanagawa-Japan

Photos and video footage have emerged showing apparent multiple munitions explosions at a US base in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo. There has been no official confirmation of the incident.

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[Kay Kim]

I wonder what is this faint humanoid type shadow appear in right bottom side of picture.
It looks alike, some kind of square thing is on the head and both arm is outstretched and the right hand toward the fire. Maybe some kind of statue? This thing, I took picture from my iPad.

 

[Mr.Cyan]

Explosions at US military base in Kanagawa, Japan (VIDEO)

From RT, an explosion at a US military base in Japan :

http://www.rt.com/news/313159-explosion-us-base-japan/

from article:

I was asleep, and at first thought it might have been the roar of thunder, but then there was a sequence of explosions for 10, maybe 15 minutes. A pillar of orange rose to the skies, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder,” one eyewitness told NHK.

 

[Foxx]

Re: Explosions at US military base in Kanagawa, Japan (VIDEO)

There's already a thread on this here:

http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,39368.0.html

and it's posted on SOTT here:

http://www.sott.net/article/300593-Large-explosion-reported-at-US-military-base-in-Kanagawa-Japan

 

[Mr.Cyan]

Re: Explosions at US military base in Kanagawa, Japan (VIDEO)

Thanks Foxx for the update - to the mods, and admins, apologies for double posting.

 

[Laura]

A US military base now? Are we seeing some kind of covert warfare in the form of sabotage, tit for tat?

 

[Mike]

A US military base now? Are we seeing some kind of covert warfare in the form of sabotage, tit for tat?

Could be. I was having similar thoughts. And now another fire in a factory in Japan near the Tokyo airport.

http://www.rt.com/news/313176-tokyo-factory-blaze-airport/

 

[RedFox]

_http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/huge-explosions-army-base-japan-6306696

[..]The site is part of a US army complex next to the capital where three deliberate explosions were reported in April, in what police suspect was an act of left-wing Japanese extremists.[..]

Maybe an effort to stop Japan getting closer to the US?
I wondered if the people responsible for the previous explosions had caused this, and the media not reported whoever was trying to get a message through?

 

[Turgon]

_http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/huge-explosions-army-base-japan-6306696

[..]The site is part of a US army complex next to the capital where three deliberate explosions were reported in April, in what police suspect was an act of left-wing Japanese extremists.[..]

Maybe an effort to stop Japan getting closer to the US?
I wondered if the people responsible for the previous explosions had caused this, and the media not reported whoever was trying to get a message through?

My first thought was that it was China. If sabotage was suspected by China in Tianjin, then the likeliest culprit would be the US. With Japan at China's doorstep, it's a convenient location to hit a US base and send a message to both the US and Japan.

 

[Turgon]

Here's another article talking about the explosion and the degree of US military presence in Japan.

_http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/blast-rips-through-warehouse-at-us-military-depot-in-japan/ar-BBm1x8p?ocid=mailsignoutmd

Washington, which for 70 years has been the guarantor of Japan's security, has 47,000 service personnel stationed in the country as part of a defence alliance.

Added: That's a LOT of military presence in Japan considering the US is a foreign country. I just checked Wikipedia and Japan has the largest amount of US military personnel outside of the US.

_https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_deployments

 

[Chu]

Just throwing it out there, but lately I've found the places where these explosions happen to have a "funny" symbolism.

Tianjin means:

There are diverse viewpoints for the origin of the name, "Tianjin". One version states that "Tianjin" as a word initially appeared in the poems of Qu Yuan, a famous patriotic poet of Chu State in the Warring States period. In his masterpiece Li Sao, there is a verse, ”At dawn, departing from the Port of the Heaven” (Chinese: 朝发轫于天津兮; pinyin: Zhāo fārèn yú tiānjīn xī). Another view is that "Tianjin" also used to be a name of constellation in the Chinese traditional astronomical system as recorded in the Astronomy Record in the Book of Sui. A third view states that "Tianjin" was recorded in the River Record in History of the Jin. The Origin from Emperor’s Name-giving-This perhaps is the most reliable point of view. Tianjin means literally The Ferry Site of Emperor (The Son of Heaven). It was said that Emperor Yongle, who was one of the sons of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, before his enthronement for getting the crown of the Emperor, launched a war against the successor of Emperor Taizu, Zhu Yunwen, the grandson of Emperor Hongwu in Nanjing. He departed from the Gu River of Tianjin and, after his success in enthronement, gave his departure site a name: Tianjin.

[...]
The opening of the Grand Canal during the Sui Dynasty prompted the development of Tianjin into a trading center. Until 1404, Tianjin was called "Zhigu" (直沽), or "Straight Port". In that year, the Yongle Emperor renamed the city Tianjin meaning "the Heavenly Ford" to indicate that the Emperor (the Son of Heaven) forded the river at that point. This is because he had indeed forded the river in Tianjin when in contention with his nephew for the throne. Later, a fort was established in Tianjin, known as "Tianjin Wei" (天津卫), the Fort of Tianjin.

I can't find any translation for Kanagawa, but it's usually known for the famous painting, "The Great Wave"

Regarding their history:

Tianjin: _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianjin

In 1856, Chinese soldiers boarded The Arrow, a Chinese-owned ship registered in Hong Kong flying the British flag and suspected of piracy, smuggling, and of being engaged in the opium trade. They captured 12 men and imprisoned them. In response, the British and French sent gunboats under the command of Admiral Sir Michael Seymour to capture the Taku forts near Tianjin in May 1858. At the end of the first part of the Second Opium War in June of the same year, the British and French prevailed, and the Treaties of Tianjin were signed, which opened Tianjin to foreign trade. The treaties were ratified by the Emperor of China in 1860, and Tianjin was formally opened to Great Britain and France, and thus to the outside world. Between 1895 and 1900, Britain and France were joined by Japan, Germany and Russia, and even by countries without Chinese concessions such as Austria-Hungary, Italy and Belgium, in establishing self-contained concessions in Tianjin, each with its own prisons, schools, barracks and hospitals. These nations left many architectural reminders of their rule, notably churches and thousands of villas. Today those villas provide an exotic flavour to Tianjin.

Kanagawa: _ http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/treaty_of_kanagawa/

The Treaty of Kanagawa: Setting the Stage for Japanese-American Relations

Detail of Sketch of Simoda (Print)On March 31, 1854, the first treaty between Japan and the United States was signed. The Treaty was the result of an encounter between an elaborately planned mission to open Japan and an unwavering policy by Japan's government of forbidding commerce with foreign nations. Two nations regarding each other as "barbarians" found a way to reach agreement.

The United States Government was determined to take the lead in bringing Japan's two-century-old policy of self-imposed isolation to a close. The Fillmore administration sent Commodore Matthew C. Perry and a small fleet of sloops and the latest steam-powered ships to go to Edo (Tokyo) Bay to insist on a treaty that would protect the rights of American whalers, provide for coaling ports, and eventually lead to trade.

Regarding geography, look at the similarities in shape and location (inside a similarly-shaped Bay)

Tianjin:

Kanagawa:

That's it for a quick glance on those two places only. Maybe it's seeing too much into it, but I thought it was interesting.

 

[Gawan]

Interesting timing imo in relation to what happened in China as already mentioned, beside the supposedly meltdown of Chinas economy . And somehow the unfortunate bombings in Bangkok come also to mind, beside there was today a new bomb found in Bangkok. And last but not least the differences of North and South Korea in the last days.

 

[angelburst29]

Japan is dealing with a massive blaze that hit a steel plant, then spread to a cosmetics factory. The site of the fire is near an International Airport.

Massive Fire Breaks Out at Tokyo Steel Plant
http://sputniknews.com/asia/20150824/1026111964.html

A huge blaze broke out Monday at a steel plant near Tokyo's Haneda airport and then spread to a nearby cosmetics factory. 600 of its employees were evacuated from the site, a local fire department official said.

The site near the busy international airport is owned by giant steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal, which declined to make an immediate comment.

The vast steel pipe-making facility, which spans 20,800 square meters, operates a pair of manufacturing lines, about one kilometer from Haneda.

"A fire broke out from a two-meter cooling tower," the fire official said without elaborating.

Aerial television footage showed the blaze stretched across a long, narrow warehouse after it was first reported at 11.36 am local time.

It reportedly spread to a cosmetics factory owned by Japanese firm's Kao and 600 of its employees were evacuated from the site, according to NHK.

There was no immediate word about employees working at the Nippon Steel factory or if anyone at either site was injured.

Japan Airlines and rival All Nippon Airways said none of its flights had so far been affected.

The blaze came just hours after a blast ripped through a warehouse at a US military post near Tokyo, sending sparks into the sky and triggering a blaze that burned through the night, although there were no reports of injuries.

 

[Kay Kim]

This is first time I trying to put the picture that I taken by while watching the video, about something show on right bottom of picture.