Her mother and sister prepared to evacuate to an air raid shelter, but she hid behind a shelf in her home and covered herself with a duvet, fearing that incendiary bombs might fall on the shelter.

The shelter was already packed ... conflagration" was "deliberate". "Until the raid on Tokyo, the American Air Force had been trying to destroy Japanese factories or attack Japanese ports.

The temple had an underground air raid shelter, where locals took refuge during the attack. Yagawa Mitsunori, a piano tuner in Hiroshima, transported the 85-year-old instrument for the event.

Japan is remembering the 105,000 people killed in a single night, 80 years ago Monday, in the U.S. firebombing of the ...

A group of activists is calling for the revocation of a Japanese government honor given ... the 80th anniversary of the Great Tokyo Air Raid. “LeMay had no remorse for how more than 100,000 ...

In all, Major General Curtis LeMay sent 279 B-29 bombers from the United States Army Air Forces low over Tokyo ... After the Tokyo raid, the Japanese government ordered schoolchildren between ...