Unexploded WW2 Ordnance in Okinawa
The Okinawan Urban Monorail, known as the Yui Rail, is the monorail public transportation system in Naha Okinawa. The "Yui Rail" brand name and logo were chosen in a public competition. It opened on August 10, 2003 and is the only public rail system in Okinawa Prefecture. It now runs from Naha Airport to Tedako-Uranishi and stops at 19 stations, covering 17 kilometers. The ride from one end to the other takes 37 minutes and costs 370 yen. The top speed is 65 km/h, with the actual average speed being 28 km/h including stops. Trains are made up of two cars, with 65 seats and a total capacity of 165 people.
It is very convenient and inexpensive, especially when you get a day or two day pass.
I was interested to find out that service would be interupted for an hour on Sunday, August 2nd to remove an unexploded World War II ordnance (not to be confused with the word ordinance). Ordnance is defined as military weapons and ammunition. Maybe this is some kind of a bomb?
After all these years, there are still dangerous remnants of World War II among us. The current pandemic is like a war, attacking and killing people. How far into the future will we be living with the remnants of this?
5 comments:
I think it is scary to know your house was built on top of an unexploded bomb or there are cylinders of nerve gas berried deep in your rice field. Decades after the war ended these dangerous items are found when the land is being turned into a big constructions site.
I hope they can remove this ordnance safely.
How amazing! Interesting that the "defusal" has been scheduled, rather than the line being shut down as soon as the unexploded device was found. They must have decided that it didn't constitute an immediate threat.
I hope the defusal operation goes well!
I've heard about unexploded bombs from WWII in England and other places, though not so much now. This is really quite fascinating, and it would be interesting to know more.
Interesting, I gather today they have special equipment and devices to test whether it was active or not. I would have thought the line would be shut down.
My town was heavily bombarded in WW2 and they regularly find undetonated bombs when doing construction work.
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