Author(s): Saotome Katsumoto
Journal: Asia-Pacific Journal : Japan Focus
ISSN 1557-4660
Volume: 9;
Issue: 3;
Start page: 4;
Date: 2011;
Original page
Keywords: Japan | Tokyo | Tokyo air raid | international law | aerial bombing | victim compensation
ABSTRACT
In this 2009 speech given by a central figure in the decades-long citizen's movement to remember and memorialize the Tokyo air raids, Saotome Katsumoto details his own experience of the March 10, 1945 firebombing of Japan's capital. He then situates the air raids on Tokyo within the context of twentieth century terror bombing campaigns and Japan's "Fifteen Year War" in Asia.
Journal: Asia-Pacific Journal : Japan Focus
ISSN 1557-4660
Volume: 9;
Issue: 3;
Start page: 4;
Date: 2011;
Original page
Keywords: Japan | Tokyo | Tokyo air raid | international law | aerial bombing | victim compensation
ABSTRACT
In this 2009 speech given by a central figure in the decades-long citizen's movement to remember and memorialize the Tokyo air raids, Saotome Katsumoto details his own experience of the March 10, 1945 firebombing of Japan's capital. He then situates the air raids on Tokyo within the context of twentieth century terror bombing campaigns and Japan's "Fifteen Year War" in Asia.
