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New museum for 1945 Tokyo air raid opens on anniversary eve

TOKYO, Japan - Novelist Katsumoto Saotome addresses an opening ceremony of the Sensai Shiryo (war damage archive) Center, a museum dedicated to the Tokyo air raid in World War II, in Tokyo's Koto Ward on March 9, the eve of the 57th anniversary of the massive U.S. firebombing that razed extensive parts of the Japanese capital and killed an estimated 100,000 people.

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New museum for 1945 Tokyo air raid opens on anniversary eve

TOKYO, Japan - Novelist Katsumoto Saotome addresses an opening ceremony of the Sensai Shiryo (war damage archive) Center, a museum dedicated to the Tokyo air raid in World War II, in Tokyo's Koto Ward on March 9, the eve of the 57th anniversary of the massive U.S. firebombing that razed extensive parts of the Japanese capital and killed an estimated 100,000 people.

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2.27 Foster home saves war orphans' lives in postwar Tokyo

Hiro Ishiwata revisits an underground passage in Tokyo's Ueno Station in this file photo taken on Jan. 24, 2015, reminiscing how she went there numerous times with her mother in the immediate days after World War II to bring war orphans sheltering there back to their house to care for. Ishiwata described the underpass as being packed with homeless people seeking refuge following the devastation of Tokyo by the March 10, 1945 firebombing. ==Kyodo