10 ERASED War Sites in Japan You're Not Supposed To Know

10 ERASED War Sites in Japan You're Not Supposed To Know 👉 Subscribe for more forgotten Japan:    / @hollow-japan   In 1938, the Japanese army erased an entire island off its own maps, because of what was being made there: poison gas. It is just one of the places Japan built for war and then tried to bury. This is a countdown of ten abandoned war sites across Japan that the country would rather you never knew about. The "Rabbit Island" that was a secret chemical-weapons plant. An underground city dug for the Emperor by forced laborers, where an estimated 1,500 died. A Meiji fortress island erased from the map for 60 years. A base that trained teenagers to pilot human torpedoes. The paper balloon bombs that drifted across the Pacific and killed civilians in Oregon. And Iwo Jima, now sealed and renamed, where twenty thousand men are still in the ground. No gore. No glorification. Just documented history, and the places a country would rather you never visited. Which one got to you? Tell us in the comments. New videos every week. Subscribe so the next one finds you. #japan #ww2 #abandoned #darkhistory #hollowjapan SOURCES Okunoshima poison gas island, erased from maps – Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ck... Okunoshima poison gas legacy – Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus – https://apjjf.org/kato-takeo/2106/art... Matsushiro Underground Imperial Headquarters – Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsush... Matsushiro, Korean forced labor and deaths – TracesOfWar – https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/82... Fu-Go balloon bomb, Bly Oregon deaths (5 children, 1 woman) – Smithsonian – https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor... Fu-Go balloon bomb – Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_b... Tomogashima Meiji fortress islands, removed from maps 1888 – LIVE JAPAN – https://livejapan.com/en/in-kansai/in... Tomogashima fortress and batteries – Japan National Tourism Organization – https://www.japan.travel/en/spot/958/ Kaiten human torpedo – Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiten Kaiten Memorial Museum, Ozushima – PHOTOGUIDE.JP – https://photoguide.jp/log/2021/09/kai... Hiyoshi underground naval HQ, Yamato, forced labor – The Boston Globe – https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/worl... Hiyoshi tunnels – Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiyoshi... Wakkanai submarine base and Cold War surveillance – Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakkanai Chiran kamikaze base, pilots' last letters, Tome Torihama – CNN – https://edition.cnn.com/travel/japan-... Chiran Peace Museum – Japan Experience – https://www.japan-experience.com/all-... Former Japanese Navy Underground HQ, Okinawa (Ota, mass suicide) – Official site – https://kaigungou.ocvb.or.jp/english/... Okinawa Navy Underground HQ – Atlas Obscura – https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/n... Iwo Jima / Iwoto, restricted access and 2007 renaming – Naval Base Iwo Jima, Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_B... Iwo Jima battle, casualties, ongoing recovery of remains – EBSCO Research Starters – https://www.ebsco.com/research-starte...