Why Japan Wiped this Island off the Map

From 1929 for 15 years the island of Okunoshima was hidden from the world after Japan erased this top-secret military base from the map. In this video, Andy travels to this island to understand more about Japan's dark history and to discover why it's now known as 'Rabbit Island.
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Story/Research/Host/Editor: Andy Burgess
Story support Aparna Ganesan & Anjali Sharma
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Sources 🔗
Okunoshima Poison Gas Museum
The Australian War Memorial | Ohkunoshima, Japan - bit.ly/3lkfpyv
Hiroshima for Global Peace | The Island Erased from the Map, Okunoshima - bit.ly/3Y8jZOV
The New York Times | Okunoshima Journal; A Museum to Remind Japanese of Their Own Guilt - nyti.ms/3IbjJJA
Christopher Harding | Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present - amzn.to/3I6Rb3N
Zenbird | Erased from the Map: Poison Gas island Okunoshima - bit.ly/40Jon8T
The Japan Times | Japanese World War II poison gas still affecting people today - bit.ly/3xaOLuO
Jansen, Marius B., et al | The Historiography of the Sino-Japanese War. - bit.ly/3xrgCah
The Dodo | The Story Behind The Bunnies Of Japan's "Bunny Island" - bit.ly/3Xp7RrO
National Geographic | This Island Is Overrun With Rabbits-Here's Why It's a Problem - on.natgeo.com/40E8UGZ
The Guardian | Rabbit Island: a Japanese holiday resort for bunnies - bit.ly/3I9csK4
Modern Farmer | Japan Has an Island Full of Rabbits ” But This Small Island Has a Dark History - bit.ly/3JSRz7f
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Traveling to the island Japan erased from the map
1:00 - This island is now overrun...
2:01 - What's the deal with Rabbit Island
2:37 - What Japan was hiding on this island
3:48 - The history of Okunoshima
4:48 - The poison gas of Okunoshima
5:38 - Post WW2 - The American occupation
6:26 - Why is this island overrun with Rabbits
7:56 - A tourist destination with a dark reminder
#japan #okunoshima #history

[@Chorutowo]

Hey! Im Gabriel, the guy who suggested this topic to your channel. I've been looking forward to this forever, glad to finally watch it. Thanks for taking me back to rabbit island, I enjoyed learning more about this place even though I went there before I know more now. Again, thanks for covering this story on your journey.

[@Faultlinevideos]

Thanks again for submitting the story Gabriel!

[@angr3819]

Thank you. Interesting. I am guessing rabbits were introduced as food at some point.

[@exudeku]

Faultline is a hidden gem since I watched their (the team, not only the great host) video about how most educated channels are literally the same. Their outside trips and hands-on documentary reminds me of the old Filipino Docu-series Reporters Notebook. I wish they have the 500k subs they deserve like most corporate documentary channels that are a husk of their former selves. 11/10 I wish you'll tackle some obscure history about my country like Galleon trade between Manila and Acapulco/ the various American warcrimes during the obscure Fil-American war/ myth of General Yamashita of the Imperial Japanese Army's hidden treasure in South East Asia.

[@rigbyatnight6921]

This is seriously one of the most well produced and involved KZbin channels out there actually traveling to locations and diving in with historical photos to illustrate the conversation. It's just a matter of time before it explodes in popularity.

[@thephantomofyoutube7346]

ayy u a fellow world federalist? (or u just like humanity as a whole?)

[@nathanielfamisan1968]

This channel is criminally underrated.

[@quenguin7866]

yeah very good content but only has 47k subscribers and a few thousand views on their videos

[@antonmakkonen]

@@quenguin7866 Well you have to make good content to get subscribers. I really hope this channel blows up soon it definitely deserves it.

[@kumatoni5245]

Lived in Japan for nearly 15 years, and have never heard of this island. 😅 Great video. Cheers.

[@jeanphilippebaillargeon]

I'm happy to have found this channel before it blow up. Very great content/producing/editing/storytelling. You have a bright future Faultline!

[@hicupalot]

Your videos are incredibly well produced and edited I am glad I found your channel

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ive seen this channel grow from a couple of thousands of subs, to now about 50k. keep up the good work guys!!

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Following you for quite a time now, watching every video and glad that the quality of the videos, viewers and subscribers, all are increasing.

[@Faultlinevideos]

Glad you like them Shashank, we're always trying to make them better and it's lovely to see more people joining this community ✌️

[@anordicheart]

Just might be my favourite video yet. Love the on-the-ground reporting and hope we see more of this on the channel in the future!

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

An actually appropriate occasion for the word: "bittersweet." Never knew about it but glad I learned!

[@Faultlinevideos]

Perfect summary Phil!

[@hubbadubba6063]

7:10 “that these rabbits are the descendants of the original test subjects”. The ancestors are the test subjects

[@speLe0log]

Such a great channel, keep up the good work!

[@IMPERIALYT]

Brilliant stuff yet again guys, lovely vid to sit down and relax with.

[@Zestieee]

your videos are incredible in quality for a channel with so few subscribers! you'll become big soon i believe

[@Darkiyah_]

Fantastic video! keep it up

[@JoelRosenfeld]

the scripting of your introductions are spot on. nice job man

[@Faultlinevideos]

Thanks Joel

[@ThePurpleSuperman]

Superb video!

[@Diptera_Larvae]

Another great video, it's been exciting watching your content get better over the last coupe of months. I want to make this next comment not to put you down but out of kindness. Something that jumped out to my ears, that you use a couple of phrases quite receptively. I'm not brave enough to make my own videos, so I can only imagine how difficult it must be to film on location, working on the fly, go back and edit and dub over the audio, but the hard work you put in clearly shows. But take for example the phase 'erased from all maps' is used around six times, its something I've noticed before, but for some reason it really jumped out at me with this video. Anyway I hope I don't offed you by saying it, and I hope anyone else reading this comment also understands that.

[@DrakiniteOfficial]

It feels like you were a bit repetitive in this one, but aside from that, excellent quality as always!

[@Tom-wk9qm]

Love your videos, was wondering what atlas you use?

[@kilojuliet2693]

yay faultline video idk if you guys realize this yet, but it is entirely impossible for you guys to stay small forever now, you'll be up to 1m in a few months and then 5m after that, good luck!

[@michl3100]

underrated bro

[@WICKEDMAN85]

I learnt all about this Rabbit Island previously from the great work of Aboard In Japan! If you want a little more context about the history. Faultline did a good job on show casing the reality of this cute but troubled island!

[@Nglittleguy]

Reminds me of vox borders, well done

[@ray_99]

Commenting for the algorithm!

[@fanOfMinecraft-UAs_channel]

From the start of footage on island I realised you were about rabbit island

[@zukacs]

intersting and well presentec

[@neddyladdy]

Did they ensure EVERY map covering that area was diverted to Japan for erasure before passing it on?

[@TheShanty0403]

Been there and found it extremely interesting. A must visit place if you’re in Hiroshima

[@RankinMsP]

Sooo..are we expected to believe the hyper hygienic Japanese have never thought about testing (some/ most of) the rabbits for any issues but would simply allow unchecked tourism? Yeah..me too.

[@eddieotoole220]

Maybe the rabbits are being used as an early warning system. If they start dying it's time to vamoose.

[@Eoin-B]

700 definitely doesn't sound right... There are roughly 40 rabbits per hectare in Ireland. That's 4000 rabbits per km2 in the summertime (10,400 per m2) & 1500 per km2 in the winter. The UK would be about the same and we are not called rabbit Islands (but we have a couple named that on the west coast). We even had a ton more before the 80s when myxo killed loads off.

[@sathyapanchbhai7833]

How did the atomic bomb not affect the Rabbit island?

[@davesprivatelounge]

"Life uh finds a way"

[@pyeitme508]

Ok

[@exploshaun]

Weird how nobody knows where the rabbits came from

[@alchang1515]

@7:11 These [today's] rabbits are the ancestors of the test subjects [during WW2]. Wow, you should get a Nobel Prize for figuring out how to make time flow backwards!🤣🤣

[@afr11235]

They are not adorable. They are hopping rats who would happily destroy your farm and anything you tried to plant there.

[@JB-gr6om]

I love rabbits, they’re delicious. 😂

[@rickc2102]

huggy bunnies

[@yudjerthen]

*descendants

[@lizziebutdiff698]

Too many bots trying to make this generic channel look good.

[@TCt83067695]

This could have been a 3mins video at most

[@whiskeysk]

why does the horrible gas "ipelit" sound like a terribly lousy and mindless transliteration from the Japanese word for yperite? The rather serious production value gets a bit undermined by the lack of basic knowledge of the topic being covered...

[@johndoe-vc1we]

4:58 just three in list qualify

[@nikee1]

This host is boring

[@DamaxThomas]

There's an hotel and camp ground ... it's very much on the map. It's too clickbait for me, I have to stop the video midway and I won't continue with your channel.

[@wiegandmaechtlen2893]

They are delicious too! I like them in red wine sauce!