Wreck believed to be of WWII Japanese Navy sub found

Researchers said Wednesday they have discovered the wreck of what is believed to be Imperial Japanese Navy submarine RO-500, which survived World War II but was scuttled by U.S-led occupation forces, in Wakasa Bay near Kyoto Prefecture in western Japan.Tamaki Ura, a professor at Kyushu Institute of Technology and member of the research team, said that judging from the distinctive characteristics of the bow it is almost certain to be the RO-500, a German U-boat that was transferred to Japan during WWII.Video footage taken by the team's unmanned submersible showed that the submarine suffered …READ FULL ARTICLE