Talk:Ōkunoshima

Questions
In the "Present" section, the following two sentences stand out:

1. 'The island has a congress-hotel'.

What is a 'congress-hotel' ?

2. 'When the tide is at its maximum or minimum, people can swim in clean water'.

Does this mean the water is not clean when the tide is not at its maximum or minimum, or people are not allowed to swim unless tidal conditions allow ?

RASAM (talk) 20:39, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

A congress-hotel is a congress-hotel. We don't have them in English, but the Okunoshima page is probably not the place to define them. For now though, a congress-hotel is a dormitory owned by a company, so that employees and their families (who often live apart in Japan) can enjoy holidays together at a subsidised, low cost. The nearby Itsukushima is full of congress-hotels. I've made the maximum-water sentence a little clearer as well. 80.4.202.8 (talk) 11:27, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Vanity image change by Vickerman625
I undid revision 342482064 by User:Vickerman625 again as it is WP:VANISPAMICRUFTISEMENT-your image is not well-cropped, unlicensed and a vanity removal of a Commons, properly licensed image with more detail. The only difference with yours is perspective. --Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 14:20, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Rabbits in the island
I have edited the article to correct information about rabbits in the island. But the edit was doubted whether the rabbits during WW2 had really been extinct or not. So I will provide additional information here.

The rabbits during WW2 mentioned in this article is not wild animals. These rabbits were artificially breeded in managed environment, because these were test animals. Therefore it was very easy to eradicate these rabbits. I don't know whether wild rabbits lived in this island or not at that time. But one Japanese source says that allied occupation forces (mainly Australian army) disposed of all chemical weapons and related materials / plant facilities in this island, and completely sanitise this island using calcium hypochlorite. A scholar who had investigated this island in 1947 reported that all the island was covered by calcium hypochlorite 3cm thickness, and there was no evidence of living matter, not only rabbits but also any plants or animals. Therefore there were no possibilities for these rabbits to survive. I don't know why they had to eradicate rabbits. Maybe they didn't want to bring out any materials that may be contaminated by poisonous materials.

The fact I have written is that, current rabbits have nothing to do with those during WW2. Some people erroneously connect these rabbits to WW2, like this article before (and even in Japanese article 4 years ago), but this is incorrect. I have proposed appropriate source for this (though it is in Japanese). So I think there is no problem to keep this fact in the article.--Tam0031 (talk) 15:20, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

This island is most famous for the rabbits, we should try to get a photo of them! Aylissa-S (talk) 20:04, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

bunnies
helllooooo 175.107.224.169 (talk) 09:54, 22 June 2022 (UTC)