Armed GSDF member briefly goes missing overnight in Sapporo

A gun-carrying member of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force was briefly unaccounted for in Sapporo, northern Japan, prompting local education authorities and schools to be on the alert, but he was found on Wednesday to have simply been lost.The GSDF member, a leading private in his 20s, strayed from fellow unit members during a drill at about 10:15 p.m. Tuesday. The GSDF halted the training to search for him and found him roughly 13 hours later, around 2 kilometers from the drill site at about 11:25 a.m. on Wednesday.This latest incident comes in the wake of a shooting on June 14 in which a …READ FULL ARTICLE