How U.S. Bombing Survey in Japan Shed Light on Civilian Sentiments of WWII

How U.S. bombing survey in Japan shed light on civilian sentiments of WWII

The survey, which a historian in Tochigi Prefecture’s Utsunimoya spent years translating, helped the city come to terms with the war’s consequences.

The Strategic Bombing Survey and Local History

I found this story on a local historical exhibit in Utsunomiya, Japan awfully interesting: “When I was growing up, I saw him working at home with an English-Japanese dictionary in his hand. I had wondered what my dad, who taught social studies in school, used the dictionary for.” In fact, until he died in 2022 at age 87, Kazuya Yoneyama toiled at translating parts of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS), a series of over 100 reports the U.…