On: Japanese missing boy: How did Yamato Tanooka survive?

Isn't it a bit weird that he could just wander onto a military base? Aren't these surrounded by some kind of fence?

On news reports here it looked like a couple of prefab storage buildings in a clearing. I imagine they mean that the land was owned by a military base.

From what I understand, this wasn't a "military base" but rather a shelter owned by the SDF. No need for a fence really.

It was an empty unused base.