On the evening on March 9th and into March 10, 1945 the United States sent 334 B-29’s into Tokyo to drop over 450,000 fire bombs on the Sumida District in Tokyo.  The resulting firestorm devastated almost 17 square miles of the city and approximately 100,000 people were killed as a result of the fire raid.  […]

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Today I took the trip into Tokyo for the first time since my arrival in Japan and I had my first Maiko or Geisha sighting!
It took me almost an hour and three different trains to get to Asaksua where this and the other photos were taken.  I was a little bit nervous about […]

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