Rare access to former imperial navy headquarters
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(23 Jun 2015) A Japanese university allowed rare access to cameras on Tuesday to what was once Japan's wartime navy headquarters, to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
The headquarters comprise of a network of underground tunnels from where Japan's Imperial Navy commanded some of the fiercest and desperate battles of the war as their enemies closed in.
The first of the Kamikaze flights, which flew over Leyte, were ordered from these tunnels, as were the battle plans for Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and sea battles involving the famed battleship Yamato.
The site was leased from one of Japan's prestigious universities, Keio University in the autumn of 1944, after more than 3,000 of its teachers, staff and students were drafted to fight in the war, leaving the school grounds empty.
Seventy years on, the underground tunnels still stand below the campus, mostly untouched.
Takeshi Akuzawa, the assistant headmaster of Keio Senior High School, who also heads a local non-profit organisation calling for the site's preservation, said it was imperative that 'negative heritage' such as the tunnels remain as a reminder of the brutal war.
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