Ground Self-Defense Force bomb disposal unit defused and removed a 1-ton live explosive from the wartime era that forced West Japan Railway Co. to suspend operations on two lines in Osaka Prefecture for three hours on July 24.
The company announced that services resumed around 3 p.m. after the GSDF declared the site safe at 1:33 p.m.
Suita Mayor Keiji Goto lifted an evacuation order issued earlier that morning for about 2,000 residents living within a radius of 300 meters of the zone, city officials said.
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Source: The Asahi Shimbun