Another unexploded World War II bomb discovered at construction site in Nagoya

Wow! That belongs in a museum.

Hey, if it means something exciting happening in Nagoya...

(I can get away with that, as I used to live there!)

Like Europe, Japan will continue to uncover these items for centuries to come.

Like Europe, Japan will continue to uncover these items for centuries to come.

Thanks to good old US..

That's one job I don't fancy at any price, army bomb disposal, full respect to them.

The war was started by Imperialist Japan, not the US. Tens of thousands of bombs remain in the ground.

Thanks to good old US.

And Germany and UK and Russia and Japan and everyone else that used bombs in WWII.

Plenty of unexploded bombs from many nations in the ground, ready to go BOOM! If you are not careful.

That's one job I don't fancy at any price, army bomb disposal, full respect to them.

I did a brief stint in Cambodia with along with the CMAC.

One of the shocking aspects was seeing the span of ages of victims of previously unexploded ordnance.

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The war was started by Imperialist Japan, not the US.

If you are referring to the Japan / US war you need to go and do your homework. The USA started this and is well known.

The US and its allies never started the Pacific War. That was started when Japan attacked the US. It also attacked many other countries.

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@TokyoLiving Yes you have a lot to be thankful for, if not China would own you and Lil Kim wouldn't be shooting missiles over you he would have already hit Japan!!

Like Europe, Japan will continue to uncover these items for centuries to come.

Thanks to good old US..

I walked past it the other day .... wondered what all the police were doing standing around the cordoned off building site ! Now I know !

Yup, 500Lb’er …that’s what I thought

Careful everyone, a reminder of what war mongers did to our world.

""The war was started by Imperialist Japan, not the US. Tens of thousands of bombs remain in the ground.""

As always, NOTHING happens is a vacuum.

Any educated person from anywhere on the planet knows Japan started the Pacific war against America, Malaysia, Philippines, New Guinea, Dutch East Indies, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong

True, but all those countries except the two beginning with "A" were controlled by Western nations who were also trying to exert control on Japan to some extent.

TokyoLivingFeb. 26 06:57 pm JST

Like Europe, Japan will continue to uncover these items for centuries to come.

Thanks to good old US..

Start stuff, get hit.

albaleoToday 01:38 am JST

Any educated person from anywhere on the planet knows Japan started the Pacific war against America, Malaysia, Philippines, New Guinea, Dutch East Indies, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong

True, but all those countries except the two beginning with "A" were controlled by Western nations who were also trying to exert control on Japan to some extent.

And how much of that "control" was as a result of Japan's war of aggression in China?

And how much of that "control" was as a result of Japan's war of aggression in China?

As opposed to western countries' control over China?

I'm not trying to justify Japan's World War 2 behavior. I'm just questioning how it differed from Western countries' behavior.

albaleoToday 03:41 am JST

And how much of that "control" was as a result of Japan's war of aggression in China?

As opposed to western countries' control over China?

I'm not trying to justify Japan's World War 2 behavior. I'm just questioning how it differed from Western countries' behavior.

Western governments were not in active hostilities with China at the time.

the u.s. dropped on and shelled vietnam with 3 x the total ordnance used in europe and asia during wwii.

17 million tons vs. 5 million tons.

Western governments were not in active hostilities with China at the time.

Maybe not, but the US had long been involved militarily in China, having had it's troops fighting on the ground in a range of conflicts, used gun boat diplomacy, coerced and manipulated the Chinese.

In 1937, because the Sino-Japanese war was 'undeclared', the US poured money into China.

So don't try to pretend that history didn't happen.

One of the biggest lessons the world took away from WW2, is that Imperialist and Colonial expansion was a white man's game, and not OK for the Asians.

In many ways, Japan merely took it's cue for expansion from the European play book, only to discover the small print saying 'For white people only.'

Thanks to good old US..

That what you get for starting a war with us

I worry about old unexploded Japanese munitions and such every time I find an uncemented over hole in a hill here in Kyushu. I found a cave that is not blocked over about 25 meters away from my house in a bamboo jungled hillside and was working outside it just last weekend. There are plenty more of these caves in the hills of Kagoshima near where the Tokkōtai (special attack force)  airbases were. This includes the area near my house. Not all dangerous explosives came from the sky, others were put in the ground by Japanese forces over 70 years ago. And in Cambodia and other places there are still leftover mines from past conflicts.

They still have the "iron harvest" (unexploded bombs) in Belgium and France the WWI, so I imagine finding bombs from WWII might go on a while longer.

Plenty of unexploded bombs still being found every year in Japan. Okinawa has plenty.

A quick search of the internet will tell you that for example an average of one WW2 bomb per day is discovered somewhere in Okinawa alone, and 1,000 a year in Japan in general.