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

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 ...

North Korea on Monday urged Japan to investigate and apologize to Korean victims killed in the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo in 1945, near the end of World War II, a day before Japan is set to mourn the ...

Bereaved families and others held a memorial ceremony in Tokyo on Thursday to read out the names of victims of U.S. air raids on the Japanese capital ... in the massive raid, said in a speech.

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 ...

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 ...

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 student ...

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 ...

On the night of March 9-10, 1945, the U.S. Air Force conducted a devastating firebombing raid on the Japanese capital, ...

The US Air Force conducted a massive bombing on Tokyo on the night of March 9-10 ... with about 10% believed to be Koreans. Japan mourns the victims of the air raid every year on March 10 ...