Overview
- The Northern Kanto Defense Bureau says the U.S. explained a servicemember landed at Yokota using a reserve chute as the main canopy drifted to the facility in Fussa.
- Fussa City reports U.S. personnel entered the children’s center at night on Nov. 20 and recovered the main parachute without notifying local authorities.
- Children’s center staff discovered remaining equipment on the roof on Dec. 1, weighing about one kilogram, which the city then retrieved.
- No injuries were reported, and the site sits roughly 100 meters from Yokota Air Base in Tokyo’s western suburbs.
- Fussa plans a coordinated protest with Tokyo and neighboring municipalities as Japan’s Defense Ministry has expressed regret and concern to the U.S.