Place names・Hiroshima

OkunoshimaOkunoshima

Also known as: 大久野島・うさぎ島

An island off the coast of Takehara. Popular as 'Rabbit Island' for its many wild rabbits, it also carries a darker history, having served as a poison-gas manufacturing site for the former Imperial Army during the war.

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