The Greater East Asia War ended in Showa 20 (1945), but people in Kitakyushu say they were hearing air-raid sirens and the sound of anti-aircraft guns until Showa 27 (1952)
The Greater East Asia War ended in Year 20 of Showa (1945), but people in Northern Kyushu say they heard air raid sirens and the sounds of anti-aircraft guns until Year 27 of Showa (1952). Taro Aso (a politician from Fukuoka) is said to have told this to Atsuyuki Sassa (a security bureaucrat). What this means is that during the Korean War, from time to time North Korean MiG fighters flew into Japan’s Air Defense Identification Zone or even Japanese airspace, and on such occasions air raid warnings were also issued, U.S. military aircraft scrambled for interception, and anti-aircraft guns were apparently fired. So people in Northern Kyushu are said to have heard the sounds of air raid sirens and anti-aircraft guns until Year 27 of Showa. It is unclear whether this “Northern Kyushu” means Kitakyushu City or “the northern part of Kyushu.” Somehow this is a story quite similar to the kind of rumor that, once Okinawa returned to the mainland, it would start to snow—an urban-legend-like story that was rumored in Okinawa before reversion.
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.