U-boat given to Japan during WWII found in sea after 72 years

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U-boat given to Japan during WWII found in sea after 72 years
By SEIJI TANAKA/ Staff Writer
July 3, 2018 at 15:30 JST
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201807030044.html

A German U-boat that was gifted to the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II has been discovered intact off Kyoto Prefecture more than 70 years after it was scuttled by the Allies in 1946.

A research team led by Society La Plongee for Deep Sea Technology, headed by Tamaki Ura, who is also a special professor of robotics at the Kyushu Institute of Technology, announced the discovery and released a number of images of the submarine on July 3.

The 77-meter-long U-511 was built in 1941 by Nazi Germany. It was later renamed the Ro-500 when it was given to the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1943 after it was used to transport confidential documents to Japan.

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