10,000 Kobe residents evacuated over removal of World War II bomb (Video)
Another Japanese news clip + English language article on the same topic:
About 10,000 residents in Kobe evacuated Sunday while members of the Ground Self-Defense Force worked to remove an unexploded shell apparently dropped during World War II. The Kobe municipal government sealed off a 300-meter radius around the site while the GSDF personnel were removing the detonating fuse from a 250-kilogram dud at a construction site in the city’s Higashinada Ward, city officials said.
The bomb, apparently dropped by the U.S. military during the war, was discovered in the initial phase of a condominium construction project, the officials said. Hanshin Electric Railway Co. halted train services between Nishinomiya and Mikage stations for about five and a half hours during the bomb removal operation because the construction site is located only 150 meters from railway tracks.
In another news report I saw this morning, reporters asked a man on the street in Kobe what he thought of the bomb incident. He kind of shrugged his shoulders and said it couldn’t be helped, and that it was a good thing that nobody was hurt during the removal. I guess it’s a better reaction than getting pissed off and raging at Americans for what their country did 60 years ago.
