The Island Erased from the Map, Okunoshima
印刷用ページを表示する掲載日2020年9月11日
Okunoshima (Takehara City, Hiroshima Prefecture), a national park designated for about 4 kilometers in circumference, is known as the “Rabbit Island” where about 900 rabbits live. Many tourists, both domestic and international, visit the island every year. However, Okunoshima was once called “the island that was erased from the map.” From 1929 to 1945, Okunoshima was a location for producing poison gas for use in World War II. It was erased from the map as a national secret of Japan’s major chemical weapons production base. Historical sites related to the production of poison gas still remain on Okunoshima today and continue to tell the horrors of war.
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