HOMETOWN: Tokyo's downtown Sunamachi area. WWII EXPERIENCE: Kase, then a 19-year-old firefighter, was helpless as napalm bombs rained down from U.S. B-29 bombers, turning the neighborhood into the sea ...

TOKYO — For decades, Teruo Kanoh never revealed the terror locked in his heart the night in 1945 when American bombs turned Tokyo into a raging fireball. Then ...

The small room where soot from the fire during the 1945 Great Tokyo Air Raid remains is seen at San-ikukai Hospital's former main building in the capital's Sumida Ward on Nov. 12, 2024.

A memorial service, attended by Crown Prince Akishino, was held in Tokyo on Monday to mourn the estimated 100,000 victims of the U.S. military's air raid on the capital 80 years ago. The ceremony took ...

TOKYO — More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago Monday in the US firebombing of Tokyo, the Japanese capital. The attack, made with conventional bombs, destroyed downtown ...

TOKYO -- A memorial service for the victims of the 1945 Great Tokyo Air Raid by the U.S. military was held at a hall in the capital's Sumida Ward on March 10, which marked the 75th anniversary of the ...

North Korea on Monday asked Japan to "investigate and apologize" to Korean victims killed in the US bombing of Tokyo in 1945, near the end of World War II. The demand came from a North Korean ...

Time seems frozen in this severely charred hospital room in Tokyo, left much as it was almost eight decades ago after U.S. B-29 bombers unleashed a firestorm that incinerated vast areas of the ...

TOKYO — With solemn memories and prayers for peace, Japan on Thursday marked the 60th anniversary of the 1945 U.S. air raid on Tokyo, a devastating World War II assault that killed about 100,000 ...

Time seems frozen in this severely charred hospital room in Tokyo, left much as it was almost eight decades ago after U.S. B-29 bombers unleashed a firestorm that incinerated vast areas of the ...