A just-released film and a special program was televised this month on the occasion of the 63rd anniversary of the hellish bombing of Tokyo by the United States, which killed 100,000 residents.
The film "Ashita e no Yuigon (Testament for Tomorrow)" deals with the bombing of the city of Nagoya, not Tokyo. It depicts the commander of the Japanese armed forces for central Japan, Lt. Gen. Tasaku Okada, who took full responsibility for the execution of 27 captured crewmen of American B-29 bombers and subsequently was condemned to death as a war criminal.
The TV program, aired over the TBS network, focused on the courage of a photographer for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department who, defying interference by the Japanese military police, took pictures of the anguished survivors and charred bodies of the Tokyo bombing, and later rejected a demand by the U.S. occupation forces that he hand over his photo negatives.