“Hidden History: Shocking Discovery of WWII Weapons Buried Beneath Tokyo’s Elementary School Unveils Secrets of the Past”
The Japan Self-Defense Forces and police say that the weapons might have been discarded in 1945 following the end of World War II.
The grenades and bullets that were found have been collected by authorities, but the swords and firearms that are believed to be replicas were disposed of by the city. The city reportedly considered keeping all the recovered items, but might not be able due to their condition.
It’s pretty common to find unexploded bombs and other various weapons buried in Japan to this day, even in residential areas. In August 2017, an undetonated bomb that was believed to be dropped by the United States was found at the site of the Fukushima nuclear plant.
But local Japanese media said that it’s pretty rare to find such a large sum of weapons used by the Japanese Imperial Army buried at once.
COURTESY OF NISHITOKYO CITYPictured above is a training grenade that was discovered alongside the firearms beneath the elementary school in Tokyo.
Unexploded World War II-era bombs and other weapons have been turning up in various different territories that were involved in the conflict —— not just in Japan.
Two bombs were discovered in Hong Kong in early 2018 in the busy Wan Chai district. Authorities were forced to evacuate thousands of residents to properly detonate the devices. One of those bombs weighed a whopping 450 kilograms, or 992 pounds.
An especially staggering amount of explosives have been discovered in the German states of Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony. Due to an unprecedented heatwave hitting Europe, the Elbe River’s water levels have plunged, revealing countless unrecovered World War II ordnance.
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