Ōkunoshima
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Ōkunoshima is a small island in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan. It is considered to be part of the city of Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture. In 1925, the Imperial Japanese Army built a poison gas factory
A view of Ōkunoshima from Kurotaki-yama.
The ruins of the gas manufacturing plant (and the power station pictured here that supplied it) are still standing today.
Rabbits on the island
The Poison Gas Museum opened in 1988 to educate people about the island's role in World War II.
Domestic rabbit
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The domestic rabbit is the domesticated form and subspecies of the European rabbit. There are hundreds of rabbit breeds originating from all over the world. Rabbits were first domesticated and used fo
Ōkunoshima
…to contribute to Japan's chemical warfare program during the Second Sino-Japanese War. After World War II, Ōkunoshima was redeveloped as a park, and domestic rabbits were released on the island. Due to the rapidity of rabbit reproduction, the current population of rabbits is estimated to be in the thousands. Due to…
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A medieval depiction of ladies who are hunting rabbits in a warren using cages and ferrets. Queen Mary's Psalter (1340)
Titian, Madonna of the Rabbit (c. 1530)
Beatrix Potter and one of her rabbits