A World War II bomb was set off in Tokyo after workers at a construction site in the capital discovered the unexploded device and called the authorities. The construction site is located near a commuter train station. Trains were halted as a precautionary measure.
The construction site was secured to make sure nobody was injured. The WWII bomb set off in Tokyo is reported to be a Japanese explosive. The bomb was covered in rust and was 40-centimeters long. The explosion was controlled and nobody was injured.
Fox News says that bombs from World War II are still being found all over Japan. Most of these explosives were dropped by the United States before 1945, when Japan surrendered. Others were either buried or lost by Japan's military.
Finding WWII era bombs is not limited to Japan. In 2011 German officials found an unexploded shell weighing 4,000 pounds believed to have been dropped by the British in the city of Koblenz.
In April of 2013 explosive experts in Berlin were working to remove an unexploded bomb from WWII dropped on the city by the Russians.
In the early part of the 1930's Japan began to expand its empire, invading Manchuria and China. In 1940 Japan allied itself with Germany and Italy forming the military alliance known as the "Axis." The United States believed that Japan's actions were too aggressive and attempted to place economic sanctions on Japan in an attempt to get Japan out of China and Manchuria.
These sanctions would result in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941. This would thrust the US into WWII and result in the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These bombing would force Japan's surrender and end WWII.
People in Japan and around the world who lived through the bombings still suffer effects from the atomic fall out, including cancer and other ailments.
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