Many ships met their doom in the sea off the coast of Japan or North-Eastern Philippines. This is almost exactly opposite to the Bermuda Triangle in the Atlantic. They call it "The Dragon's Triangle", "Devil's Sea" or "The Pacific Bermuda Triangle" and is noted for similar paranormal disturbances as Bermuda Triangle. This triangle is about 100 km south of Tokyo and 110 km from an unspecified part of Japan's east coast.
This area is said to be a danger zone on Japanese maps, according to Charles Berlitz's 1974 books The Bermuda Triangle and 1989 The Dragon's Triangle. He states that in the peacetime years between 1952-1954 Japan lost 5 military vessels with crews lost totaling over 700 people and that the Japanese government sent a research vessel with over 100 scientists on board to study the Devil's Sea, and that this ship too vanished. And finally that area was officially declared a danger zone.
According to Larry Kusche's investigation, these "military vessels" were fishing vessels, and some of them were lost outside the Devil's Sea, even as far away as near Iwo Jima, 1000 km to the south. He also points out that, at that time, hundreds of fishing boats were lost around Japan every year.
The Japanese research vessel that Berlitz named, Kaiyo Maru No 5, had a crew of 31 aboard. While investigating activity of an undersea volcano, Myōjin-shō, about 300 km south of the Devil's Sea, it was destroyed by an eruption on 24 September 1952. Some wreckage was recovered. At least one ship sent an SOS. The other seven boats were small fishing boats lost between April 1949 and October 1953 somewhere between Miyake Island and Iwo Jima, a distance of 750 miles.
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