August 16, 2019

KURAYOSHI, Tottori Prefecture--A former airfield here secretly built by the Imperial Japanese Army during the final stages of World War II turns out not to have been so secret after all, according to new research.

"It's likely that most of the secretly built airfields in Japan were detected and surveyed by U.S. forces (at the time)," said Yozo Kudo, 69, a former professor at the National Institute of Technology, Tokuyama College, who conducted the research.

The airfield is among dozens that were constructed by the Japanese side in a last-ditch preparation for an expected invasion of the mainland.

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