Seventy i years ago, inwards March 1945, over 300 the U.S. B-29 bombers dropped or in addition to then 1,700 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo. The raid killed to a greater extent than than 100,000 Japanese men, women in addition to children in addition to left over a meg people homeless. The NHK Nihon Broadcasting Corporation bring marked the 71st anniversary of the Great Tokyo Air Raid amongst a novel interactive map.
The Great Tokyo Air Raid Map includes a lay out of videos from survivors of the air raid. These commencement manus witness accounts are plotted on the map inwards the districts inwards which the participants were living at the fourth dimension of the raid.
The map is inwards Japanese alone in addition to then unless you lot beak Japanese you lot in all likelihood won't larn much from the witness videos. However the map every bit good includes shaded areas which dot the areas burned past times the incendiary bombs in addition to the evacuation zone. The cherry-red shaded surface area provides a shockingly clear indication of the destruction caused past times the air raid on Tokyo. You tin every bit good thought the impairment caused past times the bombing inwards 2 archive intelligence reels (accessed via the picayune arrow on the right-hand side of the map).
