US EditionMemorial event held to mark 81st anniversary of Tokyo air raid
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This raid was the deadliest single airstrike in human history: between 80,000 and more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed overnight, and more than a million were left homeless. This figure exceeded the number of casualties from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (about 70,000—80,000 killed at once) and also exceeded the casualties of Nagasaki. Only two nuclear bombs combined took more lives in the long run, but it was the Tokyo raid…
From Alexander Graham Bell's first phone call and Roman victory at the World Handball Championship, to the devastating bombings on Tokyo and the Silicon Valley Bank, the day of March 10 was a witness to the historic events that shaped the world.
On the 10th, 81 years after the Great Tokyo Air Raid, which took the lives of approximately 100,000 people at the end of the Pacific War, a memorial service was held at the Tokyo Memorial Hall (Sumida Ward), which commemorates the victims. As the number of people who experienced the war decreases, passing on the memory of the tragedy has become a major issue. The memorial service was attended by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and
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