Tokyo woman recounts day after massive air raids on capital

Tokyo woman recounts day after massive air raids on capital

Kimie Nemoto, pictured in Tokyo on June 28, 2015, recalls her experience of watching U.S. reconnaissance aircraft flying over the Japanese capital on March 10, 1945, the day after massive air raids on the metropolis in the closing days of World War II. ==Kyodo

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