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Tokyo braced for earthquakes and typhoons as city evolves into disaster-proof metropolis
Typhoons, earthquakes and torrential downpours have caused large-scale damage throughout Japan, but now the city is using a ...
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'Don't shoot them': The little-known crash, rescue of 3 US airmen near Tokyo during WWII
people gathered from the morning on March 10 at Tokyo Metropolitan Memorial Hall in the capital's Sumida Ward to mourn the victims. Lesser known, however, is how one of the roughly 300 American B ...
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Tokyo became a megacity by reinventing itself
CHUO: In city’s heart, a call for diversity Tokyo Prefecture’s governor ... and cherry trees flush against the Sumida River. Koike had once been a news anchor, and she’d leveraged her ...
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80 years after Tokyo air raid, victims still wait for compensation
In the wee hours of March 10, 1945, around 300 U.S. B-29 bombers dropped 330,000 incendiary bombs mainly on present-day Sumida, Koto and Taito wards in Tokyo ... many city areas were burned ...
Tokyo was filled with charred corpses after US firebombing 80 years ago. Survivors want compensation
Japan is remembering the 105,000 people killed in a single night, 80 years ago Monday, in the U.S. firebombing of the ...
Tokyo marks 80th anniversary of US air raids in WWII
Tokyo on Monday marked the 80th anniversary of a night of U.S. air raids during World War II that killed around 100,000 ...
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Tokyo’s old fish market makes way for skyscrapers, glitzy stadium to woo global spenders
The site of Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji fish market ... machines and a small area that has been dug up. The city-owned land beside the Sumida River is within walking distance of the glitzy downtown ...
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Ramses II exhibition opens in Japan
The Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs Exhibition opened in Tokyo last week following the success of its US and European ...