U.S. Bomb Defused at Japan Building Site
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TOKYO — Japanese military experts on Sunday defused a 1-ton U.S.-made bomb found at a construction site in Osaka 53 years after the end of World War II.
About 4,300 people were evacuated from homes within 330 yards of the site, and train and subway service was suspended for nearly two hours, affecting another 20,000 people in Japan’s second-largest city.
Kazumitsu Kurio, a military spokesman, said four bomb experts needed 51 minutes to defuse the 6-foot bomb, which was found 12 feet underground.
The site had been home to an Imperial Japanese Army arsenal, he said.
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