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 ...

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 -- An 88-year-old man who survived the Tokyo Air Raid in the final phase of World War II has recounted his experience of the U.S. bombing in a new documentary film beginning on Dec. 10 and has ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In the early hours of March 10, 1945, 279 U.S. B-29s dropped 1,665 tons of bombs, mostly 500-pound E-46 napalm-carrying M-69 incendiary bombs, killing approximately 100,000 civilians in a single night ...

At 8.15am on August 6 1945, a single atomic bomb dropped by the US military obliterated Hiroshima, claiming an estimated 140,000 lives by the year’s end. Marking eight decades since the devastation, ...