Open up your coffers US Treasury, the Japanese want compensation

Editor's note: What the US war machine unleashed on Tokyo 80 years ago was genocide by any defintion of that meaning and now Japanese want compensation for the destruction and loss of life. It was the psychopathic maniac (ordered the death of more civilians than any other US military officer), war criminal and likely racist General Curtis LeMay who planned the fire bombing of Tokyo. Codenamed Operation Meetinghouse LeMay brought hell to Tokyo. The same destruction and death occurred in Dresden, Germany.
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Tokyo was filled with charred corpses after US firebombing 80 years ago. Survivors want compensation

By Mari Yamaguchi | March 10, 2025

TOKYO (AP) — More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago Monday in the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo, the Japanese capital. The attack, made with conventional bombs, destroyed downtown Tokyo and filled the streets with heaps of charred bodies.

The damage was comparable to the atomic bombings a few months later in August 1945, but unlike those attacks, the Japanese government has not provided aid to victims and the events of that day have largely been ignored or forgotten.

Elderly survivors are making a last-ditch effort to tell their stories and push for financial assistance and recognition. Some are speaking out for the first time, trying to tell a younger generation about their lessons.

Shizuyo Takeuchi, 94, says her mission is to keep telling the history she witnessed at 14, speaking out on behalf of those who died.

Red skies, charred bodies

On the night of March 10, 1945, hundreds of B-29s raided Tokyo, dumping cluster bombs with napalm specially designed with sticky oil to destroy traditional Japanese-style wood and paper homes in the crowded "shitamachi" downtown neighborhoods.

Takeuchi and her parents had lost their own home in an earlier firebombing in February and were taking shelter at a relative's riverside home. Her father insisted on crossing the river in the opposite direction from where the crowds were headed, a decision that saved the family. Takeuchi remembers walking through the night beneath a red sky. Orange sunsets and sirens still make her uncomfortable.

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