Mind The Bomb

[Mulboyne]

Yomiuri: Tokyo area to be evacuated for WWII bomb defusal

About 16,000 residents of Chofu, Tokyo, will be issued evacuation orders by the city government so work can be carried out on May 18 to remove a large unexploded bomb dropped during World War II. Commuters also will be inconvenienced, with train services on a section of the Keio Line to be suspended for 5-1/2 hours and a section of a national highway to be closed. The disposal work also likely will cause problems for people heading to a Japan Racing Association G-1 race meeting at Tokyo Racecourse in Fuchu, Tokyo, and a J.League soccer match at Ajinomoto Stadium. Both the soccer stadium and racecourse are sited near the Keio Line. According to the city, Keio Corp., which is performing work to lay underground rail lines, found the bomb buried 3.25 meters underground near railtracks in the city's Kokuryocho area on March 27. The firm scanned the area with a metal detector after being told by the owner of the land that something had fallen from the sky during the war and had made a hole in a field...more...