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Oct 31, 2009 | 3:35 pm

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Matsushiro Daihonei (Zozan Underground Imperial Headquarters)

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Originally Posted by RichardInSF

I enjoyed visiting the tunnels in the town outside of Nagano where the Japanese government and military leadership planned to retreat as a final redoubt if a land war in Japan became necessary during WW2.

Thank you Richard:
http://www.japanvisitor.com/index.php?cID=357&pID=1774
Of more contemporary and controversial interest is Matsushiro Daihonei (Zozan Underground Imperial Headquarters) - a complex of subterranean tunnels dug by Korean forced-laborers in a bid to provide an impregnable sanctuary for the Emperor and the organs of the Imperial Japanese government at the end of World War II. A 500m-stretch of tunnel can be entered and there is a small museum adjacent to the main entrance detailing the brutality of the treatment meted out to the construction workers on the site.

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