Tokyo air raids

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 ...

National Mar 10, 2015

Deadly WWII U.S. firebombing raids on Japanese cities largely ignored

It was not Hiroshima or Nagasaki, but in many ways, including lives lost, it was just as horrific. On March 10, 1945, U.S. B-29 bombers flew over Tokyo in the dead of night, dumping massive payloads of cluster bombs equipped with a then-recent invention: napalm. ...