Japan’s Remarkably Cute Rabbit Island Has An Incredibly Dark History

The island of Okunoshima is now full of ludicrously cute bunnies but it for a 16-year period, it officially didn’t exist

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The small island of Okunoshima in Japan is known for being the home of a lot of highly Intagrammable rabbits. It is more commonly - but rather unimaginatively - known as ‘Rabbit Island’ thanks to its estimated 1000 or so adorable twitchy-nosed residents. However, between 1929 and 1945, the island didn’t officially even exist and was removed from all official maps.

This reason for this was that back then, Okunoshima was the location of a major top-secret poison gas factory.