Nagaoka Air Raid
August 1, 1945
Japan's local city NAGAOKA in Niigata Prefecture was air-raided just two weeks before Japan's surrender to World War II.
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The Nagaoka Airraid on August 1st, 1945 killed 1,500 people just in one night by fire bobming.
Although I had not experienced that air raid, I tried describing the disaster so that a visitor could tell how a war did hurt the ordinary people.
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CHAPTER II RENUNCIATION OF WAR
Article 9.
Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.
In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.