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 ...

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

TOKYO — More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago Monday in the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo, the Japanese capital ... Muto leapt up when she heard air raid sirens and rushed to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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