Typhoons, earthquakes and torrential downpours have caused large-scale damage throughout Japan, but now the city is using a ...

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 ...

TOKYO — More than 100,000 people were killed in a single ... Credit: AP Many of those who didn't burn to death quickly jumped ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tokyo on Monday marked the 80th anniversary of a night of U.S. air raids during World War II that killed around 100,000 ...

Alexis Dudden on the firebombing of Tokyo and on post-war struggles to keep it remembered ...

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 ...

Formerly the main ward of San-Ikukai Hospital, the four-story building in eastern Tokyo's Sumida Ward is being demolished due to ... large numbers of incendiary bombs were dropped on the city. The ...

The Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs Exhibition opened in Tokyo last week following the success of its US and European ...