Tokyo’s Sumida Ward memorial preserves the remains of some 105,000 people, including those who died in the massive air raid.

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 ...

On March 9, 1945, over 300 American B-29 bombers launched from the Mariana Islands in a mission that would forever scar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LITTLE TOKYO, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Survivors of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima are sharing their stories with young performers involved in a musical about that time in history. The hope for both ...