Richard Overy’s chilling new book Rain of Ruin charts the lead-up to Japan’s surrender in the second World War and is ...
On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...
On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...
Alexis Dudden on the firebombing of Tokyo and on post-war struggles to keep it remembered ...
Because of the atomic bombings and Japan's surrender a month later, the firebombing of Tokyo is often overlooked in history.
The map below shows the location of Hiroshima and Tokyo. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...
His concern resonates especially with that of many survivors of U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, 1945, who are worried about the lack of progress in nuclear disarmament ...
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito, marking his 65th birthday, stressed the importance to keep telling the tragedy of the World War II ...