Staff writer
In a small, sultry room in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, an area that was devastated by a massive U.S. B-29 bombing raid on March 10, 1945, Hiroshi Hoshino spends busy days organizing data on the victims and reading letters from survivors.
For the past several years, Hoshino, 68, has been struggling to identify more than 100,000 victims of the Tokyo air raids in World War II. And his effort prompted the metro government to launch a one-year project this year -- the first official effort ever -- to compile a comprehensive list of the air raid victims.