The Japan Times12d
'Eerie' sky, charred bodies: 80 years since Tokyo's World War II firestorm
Because of the atomic bombings and Japan's surrender a month later, the firebombing of Tokyo is often overlooked in history.
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 ...
Tokyo marks 80th anniversary of US air raids in WWII
Tokyo on Monday marked the 80th anniversary of a night of U.S. air raids during World War II that killed around 100,000 ...
Japan Today9d
Do you consider the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo on March 9-10, 1945, to be a war crime?
Which came to bear partially because of what happened to the Japanese civilian population in WW2, especially in Tokyo ... Japan attacked a US military base. The US targeted Japanese civilians ...
The Economist12d
Alexis Dudden on the firebombing of Tokyo and on post-war struggles to keep it remembered
Archive 1945 is a project republishing The Economist’s original reporting on the final year of the second world war ... Tokyo firebombing, and similar raids that followed on major cities across ...
A Plea for Justice for Japan’s So-Called Comfort Women
Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese ...
ジャパンタイムズ9d
Crown Prince Akishino joins in mourning victims of the 1945 Tokyo air raid
who survived the raid as she had left Tokyo a few hours before. "We should never repeat the war," said Sato, who also lost her siblings in World War II. An 88-year-old woman who lost her father ...
Okinawan bone digger searches for the remains of WWII dead and worries their lessons are unheard
Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa’s jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...