National Oct 27, 2015
Ex-librarians collect Tokyo air raid maps in effort to promote peace
by Nozomi Iwakiri
Former librarian Gen Yamazaki fixes his eyes on a map he found in the stack room at the National Diet Library in Tokyo in 1981. It shows Hachioji, a city on the outskirts of Tokyo, outlined in red. The 86-year-old Yamazaki knows the red markings indicate ...