Tokyo (AFP) – On her sixth birthday 80 years ... Yoko Kitamura was eight at the time of the bombing. She remembers the sky glowing "eerie red" and hearing that the river was "filled with bodies".

On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as U.S. B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned humans to ash and Tokyo into a wasteland. Five months before the United ...

Hinohara village—the only mainland village in Tokyo—is located on the western ... property known as the “Old Folk House in the Sky.” Although the ride is only slightly faster than walking ...

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"The fire was growing while I was watching the sky in fear," the 88-year-old told AFP. "In our area, it was bright like it was daytime". Two months later, on May 24, 1945, her district of Tokyo was ...