Tokyo was filled with charred corpses after US firebombing. Survivors want compensation
Shizuyo Takeuchi, 94, says her mission is to keep telling the history she witnessed in 1945 at 14, speaking out on behalf of ...
Not just numbers: Over 4,000 names to be read aloud at memorial for Tokyo air raid victims
The names of around 4,200 victims of the indiscriminate air raids on Tokyo by U.S. bombers near the end of World War II will ...
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Alexis Dudden on the firebombing of Tokyo and on post-war struggles to keep it remembered
Alexis Dudden on the firebombing of Tokyo and on post-war struggles to keep it remembered ...
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Tokyo’s old fish market makes way for skyscrapers, glitzy stadium to woo global spenders
A computer graphic video of plans for the 900 billion yen ($5.7 billion) project made by property developer Mitsui Fudosan shows air taxis zipping above the Sumida river, famed for its scenic bridges.
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Tokyo was filled with charred corpses after US firebombing 80 years ago. Survivors want compensation
Many of those who didn’t burn to death quickly jumped into the Sumida River and were crushed or drowned. More than 105,000 people were estimated to have died that night. A million others became ...
Tokyo was filled with charred corpses after US firebombing 80 years ago. Survivors want compensation
Japan is remembering the 105,000 people killed in a single night, 80 years ago Monday, in the U.S. firebombing of the ...
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Not just numbers: Over 4,000 names to be read aloud at memorial for Tokyo air raid victims
Burnt land areas are seen on a bank of the Sumida River in September 1945, after the Tokyo air raids near the end of World War II. (Mainichi) According to the center, Tokyo's special wards area ...