ON her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...

Japan is remembering the 105,000 people killed in a single night, 80 years ago Monday, in the U.S. firebombing of the ...

Japan is remembering the 105,000 people killed in a single night, 80 years ago Monday ... Muto leapt up when she heard air raid sirens and rushed to the pediatric department where she was a ...

They were originally to be part of a museum proposed by an expert panel 30 years ago to memorialize the deadly night fire bombing raid ... over how to refer to Japan's wartime aggression as ...

Eighty years have passed since the Great Tokyo Air Raid killed around 100,000 people in just one night. The devastation left the remains of countless victims unidentified. This report spotlights the ...

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 ...

according to Japanese and US historians. Nishio, now about to turn 86, was one of the lucky ones. She was the only survivor in her kindergarten class of 20 children. The night before the raid, she ...

After the Tokyo raid, the Japanese government ordered schoolchildren ... Meanwhile, Tokyo’s hell that March night remains the greatest man-made loss of human life in the second world war ...

At least 80,000 people died, and likely more than 100,000, according to Japanese and US historians. Nishio, now about to turn 86, was one of the lucky ones. She was the only survivor in her ...

Kang Chang-il, Korean ambassador to Japan, attends a ceremony honoring Korean victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, ...

Shizuyo Takeuchi, 94-year-old Tokyo raid survivor, shares her experience in front of a map of the areas damaged during the 1945 Tokyo Firebombing at the Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage on ...