Not just numbers: Over 4,000 names to be read aloud at memorial for Tokyo air raid victims
The names of around 4,200 victims of the indiscriminate air raids on Tokyo by U.S. bombers near the end of World War II will ...
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Tokyo braced for earthquakes and typhoons as city evolves into disaster-proof metropolis
Typhoons, earthquakes and torrential downpours have caused large-scale damage throughout Japan, but now the city is using a ...
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Alexis Dudden on the firebombing of Tokyo and on post-war struggles to keep it remembered
Alexis Dudden on the firebombing of Tokyo and on post-war struggles to keep it remembered ...
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Boat on a Tokyo river has possible ties to Japanese fleet in WWII
A boat sitting in a river in Tokyo’s Chuo Ward that looks like any other watercraft has been causing waves online as it may have once been part of the Imperial Japanese Navy. There is a high ...
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Thought extinct, ‘shirauo’ icefish turn up 50 years later in Tokyo
“Shirauo” icefish that were thought to have died out in the capital more than 50 years ago are in fact thriving in the mouth of the Tamagawa river that flows into Tokyo Bay, experts sai ...