Airman who was shot down, imprisoned in Japan during World War II accounted for
A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has ...
Frozen in time: hospital room preserved since 1945 Tokyo firebombing
Time seems frozen in this severely charred hospital room in Tokyo, left much as it was eight decades ago after U.S. B-29 ...
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'Eerie' sky, charred bodies: 80 years since Tokyo's World War II firestorm
On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as U.S. B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned humans to ash and Tokyo into ... was World War II's deadliest using ...
'What if I was born there?': Student group, survivor of WWII Tokyo bombings reflect on war
Since she was little, her mother told her about how her great-grandfather was a Jew who had survived the holocaust.
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Names of Tokyo air raid victims read out in ceremony
Bereaved families and others held a memorial ceremony in Tokyo on Thursday to read out the names of victims of U.S. air raids ...
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80 years after Tokyo air raid, victims still wait for compensation
The victims she was referring to are the survivors of the Great Tokyo Air Raid that killed 100,000 people in the capital during World War II. And the investigation relates to the stalled Diet ...
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Tokyo became a megacity by reinventing itself
Walk through Japan’s energetic urban heart and see a vibrant, creative culture that bounced back from war and natural disaster. Pedestrians, shoppers, and people-watchers stroll on Chuo-dori in ...