More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago Monday in the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo, the Japanese ...

More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago Monday in the US firebombing of Tokyo, the Japanese ...

More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago on Monday in the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo, the Japanese ...

And that this would contribute in some way to undermining the Japanese war economy.” Because of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, followed the following month by Japan’s ...

Archive 1945 is a project republishing The Economist’s original reporting on the final year of the second world war. Eighty years on, follow the course of the conflict week by week, in new ...

"I could come this far only because of my customers," Hakoishi told a televised news conference Wednesday at a gymnasium in her hometown of Nakagawa in the Tochigi prefecture, northeast of Tokyo. “I’m ...

On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned humans to ash and Tokyo into a wasteland. Five months before the United ...

And that this would contribute in some way to undermining the Japanese war economy." Because of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, followed the following month by Japan's ...

"There was nothing", she said. "It was like the surface of the Moon". The firebombing of Tokyo is often overlooked because of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later ...