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After many years of aggressive wars against other Asian countries since 1930s, Japan desperately went into the war against United States on December 8th(in Japan, 7th in US) in 1941 by Pearl Harbor Attack. It was a war that Japan would never be able to win. As a result, Japan had come to be attacked its mainland directly by US at the end of the war. The most devastating attacks were huge scale of bombings by B-29 bomber airplanes which took of from airfields on Tinian, Saipan, and Guam Islands. Tokyo Air raid was the one in the early stage of firebomb attack from low altitude in night. But it is the most destructive bombing of those attacks against other Japanese cities until the last day of the war. </left> <br><br> <center> <img src="09/tokyo_sakura2.JPG" width="320" height="240" alt="cherry blossom, spring in Japan"> </center> <br><br> <left> In the midnight of Match 9th, more than 335 B-29s came to the night sky of Tokyo and 279 of them dropped incendiary bombs indiscriminately onto population dense area of Fukagawa, Joutou, Asakusa, and other in Tokyo, Japan. The air raid continued until early morning of March 10th. It is said that amount of the bomb dropped was 1783 ton which consisted of 381,300 of M-69 incendiary bombs. The damage was extraordinary; 16 square miles of the area was burned. and a million people had become homeless. It is said that more than 100,000 people were dead. <br><br> </left> <br><br> <center> <img src="09/tokyo_sakura3.JPG" width="320" height="240" alt="cherry blossom, spring in Japan"> </center> <br> <left> The raid is usually written "qg¬N'Yzzr‰" in Chinese character. If you put the word "qg¬N'Yzzr‰" on Google, you will get 492,000 results, while using "tokyo airraid" gives you 312,000 results. Because of its magnitude of the bombing and damage, so many people has written and posted about the event on the web. So I don't think that writing about the raid on my site makes any differences. But I would like to say that the purpose of this web site is not just my hobby. It is to tell how war is disastrous and peace is important to us. <br><br> </left> <br><br> <center> <img src="09/tokyo_sakura4.JPG" width="320" height="240" alt="cherry blossom, spring in Japan"> </center> <br> <left> I have a book about Tokyo Air Raid. It is "FLAMES OVER TOKYO" by Mr. E. Bartlett Kerr. Although I have not yet read through it, I found that the author wrote about what was going on the ground from page 189 to 204 of the book. A part of that is a narrative of Ms. Masae Oshita who survived the air raid. But it seems that the author avoided the most grievous cases because, after all, none of her family was killed by the bombing. Of course, we cannot listen what it was like from those who were killed by the raid. What we can do is just to listen from who survived the raid. But the most important thing is that we should learn how people were killed by the raid and the consequences are so miserable to human beings. <br><br> </left> <center> <img src="09/japan_sakura5.JPG" width="320" height="240" alt="cherry blossom, spring in Japan"> </center> <br><br> <left> As to narratives of those who survived the Tokyo Air Raid, I think it is good to read Mr. Katsumoto Saotome(#1)'s book. It is titled "Toukyoudaikuushuu-a record of March 10th in 20th year of Shouwa-" and published by Iwanamishoten, as No.775 of blue jacket series in 1971. The book contains a lot of narratives of survivors and photos taken by Mr. Koyo Ishilawa(#2). To my surprise, Mr. Katsumoto Saotome's book does not appear on amazon.com. It seems that the book has never been translated into English. I think someone should do it. <br><br> </left> <center> <img src="09/japan_sakura6.JPG" width="320" height="240" alt="cherry blossom, spring in Japan"> </center> <br> <left> <br><br> #1:éeYNsY ÝRCQ(1932-) <br><br> #2:ówÝ] IQ}–(1904-1989) <br><br> </left> <!--  % % THE END OF WRITING PART  % % --> </font face> </font color> </span> <a href="07.html" target="_self"> <img src="../../pic/previous.GIF" width="100" height="25" alt="link to previous page"> </a> <a href="20.html" target="_self"> <img src="../../pic/next.GIF" width="100" height="25" alt="link to next page"> </a> <a href="#toptop"> <img src="../../pic/top.GIF" width="100" height="25" alt="link to the top of current page"> </a> <a href="../../nikki.html" target="_self"> <img src="../../pic/diary.GIF" width="100" height="25" alt="link to next page"> </a> </td> <td width="120" valign="top" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#D6EAFF"> <span style="font-size: 9pt;"> <font color="#E01170"> <b> CHAPTER II RENUNCIATION OF WAR <br> Article 9. <br> </b> </font color> </span> <a href="../../article9_Japan_constitution.html" target="_self"> <img src="../../pic/japan_peace.JPG" width="100" height="147" alt="Do not go to war. Resource should be used to make people's lives better"> </a> <br><br><br> <span style="font-size: 9pt;"> <font color="#E01170"> <b>Links to OUTSIDE</b> </font color> <br><br> <font color="black"> <b>Portal/Communication Site about JAPAN</b> </font color> <br><br> <a href="http://www.whynotjapan.com/" target="_blank">WHYNOTJAPAN - for Kansai (Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe)</a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.jref.com/" target="_blank">Japan Reference</a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.japan-guide.com/" target="_blank">japan-guide.com - Japan Travel and Living Guide</a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.japan-zone.com/index.shtml" target="_blank">Japan-Zone.com - Japan Travel Guide, Japanese Pop Culture, History, Japanese Girls, Japanese Guys</a> <br><br> <a href="http://metropolis.co.jp/default.asp" target="_blank">Metropolis - Japan's Number 1 English Magazine</a> <br><br> <br> <font color="black"> <b>Forum about JAPAN</b> </font color> <br><br> <a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&amp;sid=396545488" target="_blank">Japan - Yahoo! 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Not Monkeys!" by Apeman-san</a> <br><br> <a href="http://d.hatena.ne.jp/claw/" target="_self">"CLick for Anti War" claw-san</a> <br><br><br> <font color="black"> <b>Excite Blog</b> </font color> <br> <a href="http://sekakata.exblog.jp/" target="_self">"Sekai no Katasumi de Nyu-su wo Yomu" by mahounofuefuki-san</a> <br><br><br> <font color="black"> <b>So-net Blog</b> </font color> <br> <a href="http://furuido.blog.so-net.ne.jp/" target="_self">"Shikou Sakugo" by furuido-san</a> <br><br><br> <font color="black"> <b>Rakuten Blog</b> </font color> <br> <a href="http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/intisol/diary/" target="_self">"inti-sol no burogu" by inti-sol-san</a> <br><br><br> <font color="black"> <b>Seesaa Blog</b> </font color> <br> <a href="http://uyotoubatsunin.seesaa.net/" target="_self">"Uyoku Toubatsu Iinkai" by uyotoubatsunin-san</a> <br><br><br> <font color="black"> <b>Cocolog Blog</b> </font color> <br> <a href="http://finalvent.cocolog-nifty.com/fareastblog/" target="_self">"Kyokutou Blog" by finalvent-san</a> <br><br><br> <br><br><br> <a href="http://febcjp.seesaa.net/" target="_self"> <img src="../../pic/flogo.png" width="127" height="47" alt="image for link to febc"> </a> <br><br><br> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="800"> <tr> <td> <span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <b> <a href="../../../index.html" target="_self">The Top Page of "echigonagaoka.com"</a> </b> </span> <span style='font-size:9.0pt'> Any compaints, or some, send them to <img src="../../../pic/address.GIF" alt="my e-mail address" width="155" height="15"> <br><br> </span> </td> </tr> </table> <!--LINE3--> <!--LINE4--> </body> </html>