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Bunday Surprise of the Day: From The Mainichi Daily News comes a report that Okunoshima Island, home to the infamous Imperial Army’s lethal gas production facilities from 1929 to 1945, is now a place of refuge for hundreds of adorable bunnies.

Many visitors to Okunoshima Island, located some three kilometers off the Hiroshima Prefectural city of Takehara, are bringing their cameras to take photographs of the rabbits, next year’s zodiac animal, for their New Year’s greeting cards and personal blog sites. Today, there are some 300 rabbits living on the island. […]

It is believed that rabbits were first taken to the island in 1971, after an elementary school in Takehara found it difficult to keep the animals at school. According to the Kyukamura Okunoshima resort hotel, most of the visitors to the island consisted of students on school study trips and senior tourists.

[japanprobe / geekosystem.]

 I need to go here!

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