Japanese WWII survivor recounts the fire and fury as her city burned.
ON her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...
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'Charred Bodies, Eerie Sky': Japanese Survivors Recall Deadly WWII Air Raid
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 ...
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 ...
India's antitrust raids on global media giants GroupM, Publicis, Dentsu ran through the night
India's antitrust officers grilled media executives and seized data in an investigation into price fixing by global ...
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Tokyo was filled with charred corpses after US firebombing. Survivors want compensation
TOKYO — More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago Monday in the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo, the ...
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Memories of Great Tokyo Air Raid finally get public release
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 ...
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Alexis Dudden on the firebombing of Tokyo and on post-war struggles to keep it remembered
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 ...
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North Korea urges Japan to 'investigate, apologize’ to Korean victims of 1945 Tokyo bombing
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 ...