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Thinking Now about the Great Tokyo Air Raid [PDF]
Asia-Pacific Journal, 2011 Description: The author situates Tokyo air raids and the postwar movement within the context of international law and the indiscriminate bombing of civilian populations in urban areas.
Masahiko Yamabe, Bret Fisk
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That Unforgettable Day–The Great Tokyo Air Raid through Drawings [PDF]
Asia-Pacific Journal, 2011 The following paintings depicting the Great Tokyo Air Raid of March 10, 1945 were featured in a special exhibit hosted by the Sumida Local Culture Resource Center (墨田郷土文化資料館) in 2004. The Center staff originally settled on the idea of collecting amateur and professional artwork as a unique way of contributing to the preservation of the public memory ...
Bret Fisk
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The Great Tokyo Air Raid and the Bombing of Civilians in World War II [PDF]
Asia-Pacific Journal, 2010 The firebombing of Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945 touched off the wave of firebombing that destroyed 64 Japanese cities and culminated in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been deeply engraved on the consciousness of humanity and commemorated in monuments, museums, films, novels and textbooks, the ...
The Asahi Shimbun Culture Research Center
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The Tokyo Air Raids in the Words of Those Who Survived [PDF]
Asia-Pacific Journal, 2011 Description: Bret Fisk provides a brief description of the types of first-person accounts that exist in Japanese regarding the civilian experience of the Tokyo air raids. Examples of such accounts are given under the headings: “Complete Personal Narratives,” “Incomplete Episodes and Incidents,” and “Sites of Mass Suffering.”
Bret Fisk
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Reconciliation and Peace through Remembering History: Preserving the Memory of the Great Tokyo Air Raid [PDF]
Asia-Pacific Journal, 2011 Introduction: In this 2009 speech given by a central figure in the decades-long citizen's movement to remember and memorialize the Tokyo air raids, Saotome Katsumoto discusses details of his own experience of the March 10, 1945 firebombing of Japan's capital. He then situates the air raids on Tokyo within the context of twentieth century terror bombing
Saotome Katsumoto, Bret Fisk
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Fire Bombings and Forgotten Civilians: The Lawsuit Seeking Compensation for Victims of the Tokyo Air Raids [PDF]
Asia-Pacific Journal, 2011 In 2007, an extraordinary apology by Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō appeared in print. It begins with an acknowledgement that Japan's indiscriminate bombing of civilians living in the Nationalist Chinese wartime capital of Chongqing beginning in 1938 violated international law and gave the United States a justification for its own devastating ...
Cary Karacas
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Saotome Katsumoto and the Firebombing of Tokyo: Introducing The Great Tokyo Air Raid [PDF]
Asia-Pacific Journal, 2015 March 10 is the 70th anniversary of the Great Tokyo Air Raid. Although Tokyo was bombed more than 100 times from November 1944 to the end of the war, the firebombing centered on the Shitamachi district in the early hours of March 10, 1945, was by far the most devastating air raid on the capital.
Richard Sams +2 more
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Thinking Now about the Great Tokyo Air Raid 今、東京大空襲を考える
Asia-Pacific Journal, 2011 The author situates Tokyo air raids and the postwar movement within the context of international law and the indiscriminate bombing of civilian populations in urban areas.
Yamabe Masahiko
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That Unforgettable Day--The Great Tokyo Air Raid through Drawings あの日を忘れない・描かれた東京大空襲
Asia-Pacific Journal, 2011 These memorable paintings depicting the Great Tokyo Air Raid of March 10, 1945 were featured in a special exhibit hosted by the Sumida Local Culture Resource Center in 2004.
Sumida Local Culture Resource Center (墨田郷土文化資料館) +1 more
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Asia-Pacific Journal, 2011 In 2007, an extraordinary apology by Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō appeared in print. It begins with an acknowledgment that Japan's indiscriminate bombing of civilians living in the Nationalist Chinese wartime capital of Chongqing beginning in 1938 ...
Cary Karacas
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