The Americans have subjected Japanese cities to a brutal fire-bombing campaign. It's thought nearly 100,000 people have ...

Tokyo has been rebuilt twice during the past century—first after the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake ... and a generation later by U.S. bombing raids during World War II. Each catastrophe forced ...

The movie begins in 1943, two years after the Pearl Harbor attack ... One 1945 air raid on Tokyo became the deadliest bombing raid in human history — its death toll exceeding those of the ...

The coat I was wearing was in tatters from the fire ... with the Japanese secondary title of “Tokyo Dai-kushu no Kioku” (Memories of the Tokyo firebombing). On March 10, 1945, a U.S ...

The Center of the Tokyo Raid and War Damages/Tokyo Fire Museum. Used with permission ... across the Pacific and the devastating U.S. firebombing of Tokyo, B-29s carried a non-lethal payload ...

dropped an atomic bomb on the city. I was born near Tokyo, and lived ... the city of Hiroshima after the US atomic bomb ... [+] attack on 6th August 1945. The fire reached its peak intensity ...

The Boy and the Heron” finds the filmmaker revising—and sometimes upending—the themes that have defined his career.

Residents of a western Tokyo ... of a bombing attack on and around a Nakajima Aircraft plant near Higashi-Murayama, where fighter aircraft engines were produced. Hit by antiaircraft fire by ...

Landing one of the planes on a carrier was out of the question, but after ... headed across Tokyo for a large naval base in Yokohama. As the bomb bay doors opened, anti-aircraft fire, called ...

I think we should have dropped the bomb near Tokyo Harbor in the evening ... attack on 6th August 1945. The fire reached its peak intensity around three hours after the detonation.

Having authorised the use of the bomb any time after August 3 ... cities to a brutal fire-bombing campaign. It's thought nearly 100,000 people have perished in Tokyo, and approximately 900,000 ...