{"id":67,"date":"2011-01-03T03:29:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T00:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2011-01-03T03:29:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T00:29:34","slug":"site-of-wartime-chemical-weapon-plants-now-rabbit-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/03\/site-of-wartime-chemical-weapon-plants-now-rabbit-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Site of wartime chemical weapon plants now rabbit island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okuno Island in the Seto Inland Sea, known as the site of chemical weapon plants before and during World War II, now attracts tourists aiming to see rabbits living in the wild as 2011 marks the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors may spot rabbits as they walk around sites where chemical arms were produced, such as former poison gas storages on the small island in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture.<\/p>\n<p>The rabbits on the island total about 300 and descend from eight rabbits released in the wild in 1971 in warm weather and an environment without many natural enemies, according to Okuno Island Visitor Center, an Environment Ministry facility.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbits were used as lab animals at the Imperial Japanese Army plants but all those animals were culled shortly after the war, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Lethal chemical weapons including mustard gas and lewisite were produced from 1929 to 1945 at the plants where more than 6,000 people worked and some suffered illness from the substances.<\/p>\n<p>During that time the island was not contained on maps to keep it secret. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okuno Island in the Seto Inland Sea, known as the site of chemical weapon plants before and during World War II, now attracts tourists aiming to see rabbits living in the wild as 2011 marks the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac. Visitors may spot rabbits as they walk around sites where chemical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}