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MSDF patrol boat misfires gun The Defense Agency's Senior Vice Minister Taro Kimura apologized Sept. 8 for an incident in which a machine gun on a guided-missile patrol boat fired live ammunition at a Maritime Self-Defense Force base in Aomori Prefecture three days earlier. Kimura, a Lower House member from the governing Liberal-Democratic Party, apologized to Masashi Sugiyama, mayor of Mutsu, host of the MSDF's Ominato Regional District Headquarters. "An impermissible thing happened. I apologize from the bottom of my heart," Kimura said. At around 7:20 p.m. Sept. 5, personnel on the 50-ton guided-missile patrol boat Misairutei-San-Gou, which was docked at a pier of the Ominato Regional District Headquarters, accidentally fired 10 rounds of 20-mm live ammunition landward. There have been no injuries or damage to property reported. The rounds were fired when the crew was checking the equipment. The incident occurred after the vessel came back to base after a shooting drill in the Sea of Japan.
The Japan Times Weekly: Sept. 16, 2006 |
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