War-Era Tunnels Collapsing Throughout Japan
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Following secret Tokyo network allegations, it’s time for another tunnel story.
About 5,000 “underground facilities” — air-raid shelters, bunkers, &c. — were built throughout Japan during World War II. Today, 777 of them are considered “dangerous or possibly dangerous.”
Wartime hazard lurks in 777 underground locations
Asahi ShinbunAkihiko Ota woke up one morning in October, took a look around his house and found cracks in his stone walls and stairways. But what really caught his eye was the change in his garden-it was sinking.
Two days later, the sag had developed into a gaping sinkhole about 5 meters wide and 3 meters deep.
Ota, 36, and his next-door neighbor, Hideki Shibusawa, 48, had to evacuate their families from their homes in Hino, Tokyo, the victims of a long-forgotten wartime project that has caused accidents and at least two fatalities in modern-day Japan.
¥20 million to fill a tunnel.
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Posted to Little-known Facts 2003.04.25 (Fri) • 13:09
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Posted by gomichild 2003.04.25, 14:23
Ooops?
Posted by Jesper 2003.04.26, 02:12
Atleast the underground locations are world-writable! That’s gotta count for something!
Posted by David Jones 2007.02.28, 11:23
I’d really like to know more about the tunnel situation and particularly about the closing of the Ginza line during the war - the so called secret second subway system still in existence today - Does anyone know anything and can they also postit at http://www.tokyonodoko.com We are trying to write a story on it. With thanks to Antipixel
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