WWII fire-bombing of Tokyo by US remembered 70 years on

「東京大空襲から70年。米軍の爆撃で10万人以上の死者を出したこの惨劇は、世界ではあまり知られず、日本でも忘れられつつあると懸念されています（英語ビデオ）」　（BBC News Japan twitterから）

 

10 March 2015 Last updated at 02:26 GMT

Seventy years ago on the night of 9-10 March, in the Japanese capital, 334 American B-29 bombers dropped thousands of tonnes of incendiary bombs on the city's crowded wooden neighbourhoods.

They started a fire storm that burned at over 1,000 degrees and killed more than 100,000 people.

It was an event that dwarfed even the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, yet it's been all but forgotten around the world - even in Japan.

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports.

 

 

 

 

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