3 SDF members dead after explosion during training

3 SDF members dead after explosion during training

Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi meets the press at a parliament building in Tokyo on April 21, 2026, after three of the Ground Self-Defense Force members were killed and another member injured in a tank shell explosion during a live-fire exercise at GSDF's Hijudai training range extending across Yufu, Kusu and Kokonoe in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

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