{"id":69999,"date":"2025-03-10T14:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T05:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/10\/great-tokyo-air-raid-firebombing-anniversary-america-survivors"},"modified":"2025-03-10T14:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T05:57:27","slug":"eighty-years-since-the-tokyo-firebombing-survivors-are-still-awaiting-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69999","title":{"rendered":"Eighty years since the Tokyo firebombing, survivors are still awaiting recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More people were killed in the 1945 attack than the atomic bombing of Nagasaki a few months later, but there is no national memorial, accurate death toll or compensation for survivors<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Not even the passage of eight decades has dimmed Shizuko Nishio\u2019s memory of the night American bomber planes killed tens of thousands of people in the space of a few hours and turned her city to ash.<\/p>\n<p>In the early hours of 10 March 1945, around 300 B-29 Superfortress bombers dropped 330,000 incendiary devices on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Tokyo <\/a>and killed an estimated 100,000 civilians, in an attack that cost more lives than the atomic bombing, months later, of Nagasaki.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/10\/great-tokyo-air-raid-firebombing-anniversary-america-survivors\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More people were killed in the 1945 attack than the atomic bombing of Nagasaki a few months later, but there is no national memorial, accurate death toll or compensation for survivorsNot even the passage of eight decades has dimmed Shizuko Nishio\u2019s mem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-second-world-war"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70000,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69999\/revisions\/70000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}