WWII-era shells readied for disposal

[GomiGirl]

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WWII-era shells readied for disposal
10,000 Hamamatsu residents, 7,100 more in Kobe evacuated so GSDF squads can remove ordnance

Bloomberg, Kyodo

Residents evacuated a swath of the city of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Higashinada Ward in Kobe on Sunday morning as military explosives experts prepared to move two World War II-era artillery shells.

Around 10,000 Hamamatsu residents were forced to evacuate and rail and road traffic near the site of the latest find, a 860-kg shell, had to be halted. The dud was apparently fired by a U.S. Navy ship toward the end of the war, the municipal government said in a statement.

A Ground Self-Defense Force bomb squad was scheduled to blow up the shell on a nearby beach later Sunday.

In Kobe, meanwhile, around 7,100 residents were evacuated to allow GSDF officers to remove a 250-kg shell that was discovered last month at a depth of 3 meters.

Almost 70 years after the end of the war, GSDF bomb squad personnel are still clearing unexploded ordnance throughout the nation, including, occasionally, in central Tokyo. They have dealt with some 6,000 tons of duds since the government began keeping records in 1958, according to Defense Ministry records.
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[nikoneko]

The Kobe one is right by my house, we got a notice but were right on the border of the evac zone. A few years back we did have to evac and spent the night in a hotel. Fun stuff haha, my wife says this area was extremely heavily bombed due to the factories. I don't remember exactly but it's famous for Sake and I believe those and other factories were converted during the war.

[sublight]

There was one found just last week in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo.

[Russell]

The Kobe one is right by my house, we got a notice but were right on the border of the evac zone. A few years back we did have to evac and spent the night in a hotel. They found another one just a couple months ago a bit north, that didn't make the news as much. Fun stuff haha, my wife says this area was extremely heavily bombed due to the factories. I don't remember exactly but it's famous for Sake and I believe those and other factories were converted during the war.

I was wondering where in Kobe this bomb was actually found, because it was nowhere reported.

So you live in Nada-ku, don't you?

[nikoneko]

We are in Higashi-Nada right close to Hanshin Ohgi two stops before Ashiya. Also meant to say there weren't two in our area recently like I thought, my wife corrected me it was the same one. My son and I saw it about a month ago and it took them this long to clear it.. It is right across the street from an elementary school and next door to a 保育園...... When the one our street was found it was only a week or so, not sure why this one took so long.