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 ...

In his memoirs, the American air force general Curtis LeMay reflected on the results of the devastating air raid he had ordered on the crowded central zones of the Japanese capital, Tokyo, in March ...

Bret Fisk is a translator and director of an English conversation school living in Odawara, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. With Cary Karacas he is the co-creator of JapanAirRaids.org, a bilingual ...

During the firebombing campaign against Tokyo that began in November 1944, the surrounding area was reduced to ashes. According to hospital records, after the war, the hospital repaired the damaged ...

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 ...