63rd anniversary of Great Tokyo air raid -Testimony

[TedYokohama]

The innocent people were being burnt to death while they were still alive. Smell of burning human flesh was drifting in air. A man who reproduced images of Tokyo Massacre on canvas recalls that he was so devastated to see a child lying on the ground and a mother just motionlessly standing like a ghost.

[TedYokohama]

Another man recalls that thousands of people who rushed to Kototoi Bridge (23 meters in width and 239 meters in length) from both sides of Sumida River had been instantly engulfed in fire. They were all screaming while being suffocated and being incinerated on the bridge.

[TedYokohama]

Strong wind was blowing at 00:08 AM on March 10, 1945 when the first incendiary bombs were dropped. In a matter of ten or twenty minutes, fire had spread to engulf the wide area. An elementary school (reinforced concrete building) designated as an evacuation site was packed with hundreds of people.

[TedYokohama]

They were soon baked to death as they were trapped inside the building. They couldn't get the steel doors opened because those doors were deformed due to the intense heat. The building itself was transformed into a gas chamber and at the same time into an incinerator.

[TedYokohama]

I consider it as a grave violation of a very basic understanding behind "Peace Treaty" that U.S. has brought up an issue of "comfort women" once again.

[TedYokohama]

U.S. Congress should be blamed for the act of bringing up "comfort women". I understand their feelings in a sense that what U.S. did to Japan could be worse than what Adolf Hitler did to the Jews. Say, for example, a great number of people was murdered at Auschwitz. However, we should remember that by Tokyo air raid, more than 100,000 innocent civilians were burned to death just in one night.

[TedYokohama]

How many months do you think it took the Nazi Germany to burn more than 100,000 Jews at Auschwitz? I would say it took about a year. But U.S. burned that many people just in one night. Not only Tokyo but also more than 60 cities, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki where nuclear bombs were dropped.

[TedYokohama]

March 10, 1945-a date of Tokyo Massacre that should be remembered by every man with some degree of decency as a historic moment when more than 100,000 innocent civilians, including unborn babies, babies, children, women, aged people were baked to death by dropping not only 1,700 tons of incendiary bombs but also some napalm bombs to maximize the effect of air raid.

[TedYokohama]

No matter how precisely I describe the atrocity of exterminating more than 100,000 innocent noncombatants less than three hours based on testimonies made by some survivors, a majority of Americans will probably laugh it off.

[TedYokohama]

Tokyo was like a gas chamber and at the same time an incinerator-the largest ever created-too large to compare with one devised to exterminate the Jews at Auschwitz. Extermination of race which we must strongly condemn is the highest degree of prejudice among five degrees of prejudice; dislike, apathy, discrimination, physical attack, and extermination.

[TedYokohama]

Furthermore, some people still say that the United States of America committed a pre-meditated war crime against humanity here in Tokyo 66 years ago regardless of what some Americans have so far written on Bombing of Tokyo at Wikipedia site and at any other sites on Internet.

[TedYokohama]

Regardless of their efforts to glorify and to justify their past deeds, those who committed a war crime must be brought to justice as war criminal suspects. If they are still alive or not, their crimes must be identified for the necessary judgements.

[GrahamSMcCann]

Yeah, this was an evil act. Despicable - however it was not an American phenomenon, it is a human phenomenon. This kind of mass killing without remorse and with feeling of justification has been committed by all tribes of humanity.

It is so easy to kill people demonized by your group, especially if you are encouraged by orders. This is something we must learn of and end if we want betterment of human well-being.

[AxisOfEternity]

so America is evil and the rest of the world hates them... whats new

[Pancho4112]

The USA are the most infamous country in the world, first it was Japan, next Vietnam, and nowadays the poor people living in the Middle West. I am so happy they could never reach Russia.

And we must not forget the Atomic Bomb

[barbs19788]

as much as i like japanese people their level of ignorance about ww2 astounds me

[CrimeAvenger2]

In the Philippines war at the time of beginning of the 20th century, 600,000 Filipinos were slaughtered by the United States.

The United States has intentionally expanded the rich and poor of the Philippines.

It was made to keep difficult the independence of the Philippines as the United States was and intentional.

This is true of the history.

Do not make an excuse.

[PraiseDog]

I would be the first to point out American behavior which is nothing to be proud of in the past. I am not in denial. I don't want to pick a fight here. I don't think Japan is anything today like it was in those years, I have said as such to Chinese people I know who still don't trust Japan. In fact the culture of brutality was a result of the military taking charge of the culture in the 20's. You need to read some scholarly history. I suggest "Retribution" by the Brit Max Hastings.

[CrimeAvenger2]

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I have the interest about "Japan of prewar days that you imagine".

[CrimeAvenger2]

A lot of Japanese women who had existed in the foreign country after World War II were raped.

The aborticide hospital was set up in the port in Japan.

A Japanese woman was raped by Chinese, a Russian, Korean people, and the American.

Therefore, you say, "Japan is bad".

The reason for you is that it wants to conceal your own crimes.

[PraiseDog]

The US military had a policy of executing soldiers for rape. You should stay on topic. The firebombing was performed because conventional bombing had failed, the US had constructed a huge fleet of B-29's and they were going to use the tools they brought to the table, that was inevitable. I could argue against efficacy of the the Bombing campaign, Admiral Nimitz felt is was and ill-advised strategy. Then again, one can argue that Nimitz should have stopped at Saipan, and just blockaded Japan.

[CrimeAvenger2]

Hull note, "Outline of proposed Basis for Agreement Between The United States and Japan" is not described in most United States textbooks.

The reason for the American wants to conceal it.

To begin with, there is no positive proof that you are an American. A lot of Korean has taken the shape of the American.

[clavie05]

Fuck jap ! It s nothing that !

you are more worse than animaux !

[PraiseDog]

See why the Chinese are so angry, the denial, Japanese making themselves out to be martyrs. They don't teach their children about what they did, they live in denial. At least Germans accept that they brought it on themselves. And the Japanese were far worse than the Germans. The Japanese public fully supported the military expansion, enslavement and killing of 25 million Asians. What they did to Asia is unspeakable. Read about it. It would not have happened without public civilian support.

[CrimeAvenger2]

Chiang Kai-shek destroyed Hwang Ho, and killed two million Chinese or more.

At that time, a Japanese army rescued the people in China of 100,000 people.

However, a Chinese army gunned them.

And, "Japanese did" and propaganda were done.

After the war, China and the United States fabricated a lot of "Crime of Japan".

[deemilieu]

most the city was wood and paper. incindiaries easily set the city alight.

[anonymoususerindenve]

Only an uneducated fool calls a bombing raid during a war Genocide. Genocide is defined as a state-sponsored goal intended to kill all of a specific GENETIC origin, or race. If the US had intended to wipe all Japanese from the planet, then genocide is the proper term. In this instance, the writer ignorantly tries to use genocide as the label here only to inflame other fools who are uneducated as well. Nobody should forget that this was a war started by the Japanese.

[anonymoususerindenve]

If the US had actually intended genocide, they had the means to actually commit it. had genocide been the US policy, the occupation of Japan postwar would have taken cue from the Nazi GENOCIDE of the Jews, and there currently would be no Japanese, as there would have been nobdy to stop the US from just emptying the hills and cities. Committing genocide onthe Japanese in 1945 would have been pitifully easy post surrender. Is that ever noted by the fools who put out this "genocide" nonsense?

[sirrington]

lol how come they never did that on the other clips of the nanking masserce and pearl harbour! How ironic!

[chinakusodead]

大日本帝国万歳！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！

ＦＵＣＫ　ＯＦＦ　卍Ｕ卍Ｓ卍Ａ卍

[makokun9]

haha, you miserable piece of shit.

[andocrates]

Oh give me a fucking break. How are the Chinese evil? That's got to be the evilest country in the history of the world. Most countries have stopped overt acts of cruelty but China is still harvesting organs from religious people and killing women with sniper rifles because Chinese men don't have courage to face enemy.

watch?v=Ia04u0u8J8s

watch?v=MbE1oc3g3ww

[markfeng66]

Killing women with sniper rifles? lmao China already faced USA during the Korean war.

[andocrates]

Watch the video. watch?v=Ia04u0u8J8s

You are correct and I am wrong. Chinese will fight other soldiers. My point was Chinese have no right to call Japanese from 65 years ago murderers when 5 years ago Chinese did the same thing,

[andocrates]

QUOTE how were the chinese evil? you jap sympathizing azn fuck! /QUOTE

Oh give me a fucking break. How are the Chinese evil? That's got to be the evilist country in the history of the world. Most countries have stopped overt acts of cruelty but china is still harvesting organs from regiouys people and killing women with sniper rifels becaus chinese men dont have courage to face enemy.

watch?v=Ia04u0u8J8s

[jamesperkins1945]

hitler hitler hitler hiter fuck off jews

[aznman2000]

americans evil, german evil, japanese evil, chinese evil, british evil and so on and so on..theres nothing good about war so stop taking sides

[BitterYoungMan]

Exactly. Every side does horrible things in war.

[kelloggcerealxoxo]

how were the chinese evil? you jap sympathizing azn fuck!

[RUFan4Life]

america will apologize after the japanese stop fucking living in a world of denial that THEY were the victims of the war(HA!)

[attela666]

In fact,they were victims also. They lost the war. (But I'm not defending their crimes).

Civilians of all countries were victims.

[x0rr3g]

and the japs were the first to break peace with USA. the japs attacked pearl harbor yet i don't hear any apologies from them.

this was war, it's reality that both sides die

[effingreat]

Not true, the US, as Pussy as it has ever been, entered the war "unofficially" by cutting off energy supplies to Japan. Japan reacted. Then we, as the barbarians we are, dropped atomic bombs on their civilian cities.

[attela666]

Roosvelt triggered the war, cutting off oil supplies.

And he used Pearl Harbour as an expiatory goat.

[lolibaso]

Roosvelt triggered the war by cutting off oil supplies? That's ridiculou!!!! There were not any countries bearing responsibility to provide oil to Japan. Cutting oil supply was to prevend the Jap war machine to kill more innocent people in Asia.

[attela666]

Yes, I'm not denying this,but western countries (and them were in the pacific area too, and not to search new friends, but primary resources) strangled Japan, preventing his expansion.

[markfeng66]

wow attela666:

Wow you speak of military expansion as if it was correct in the first place. Maybe if you don't try to take oil from other Asian countries you were just better off with the oil that western countries supplied you.

[watchingclipss]

What gives U.S. right to condemn Russia for what they done to Georgia after what U.S. done to Iraq?

[watchingclipss]

No country bears responsibility to proviide oil to Japan. Correct.

No country bears responsibility to proviide oil to U.S. either.

What would U.S. do if suddenly Middle Eastern nations ceases all oil exports to U.S.?

[kentamitchell]

Cut consumption, develop alternatives, and drill off-shore and ANWR- like we should have done 10 years ago.

[143498]

if u japanese pigs against us, u will be nuked, understand? so follow me and anti china.

[redfan45x]

iam sorry but thats not true, Unfourtunatly America has killed almost as much as the NAzis killed Jews, not like its anything to be proud of

[redfan45x]

its hard for me to think of this, when i know iam American and German and both where mean in ww2 but every side was even the Japanese, when u see what they did to the Chinaese then you can find things to love and hate about each side

[jofirephoenix1250]

It's funny, Japanese don't want to mention anything about their killing of hundred of thousands of people during the war but wanted apology from US for the bombing of Tokyo. How hypocritical!

[bringonthelovin]

After what Japan did to China, how can you complain? Japanese were monsters in China!

[stevexx1975]

For the attrocities committed by the nips,payback was a bitch.

[airraideagle]

taiyowhale YOU MUST BE JOKING, YOU JAP PIECE OF SHIT.

AMERICA IS THE COUNTRY THAT DROPPED *TWO* NUCLEAR WEAPONS ON JAPAN. AMERICA DOES NOT APOLOGIZE. AMERICA DESTROYS ITS ENEMIES.

NEVER, EVER FORGET THAT, JAP-CUNT.

[jofirephoenix1250]

Very said, go USA!

[bobhope346]

カーチス・ルメイを永遠に忘れるな！　戦争犯罪人に時効はない。

[Szierse]

TaiyoWhale, you want Americans to apologize for Tokyo air raid, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki?

We will, as soon as the Japanese apologize for the Rape of Nanking, the use of Chinese civilians as human guinea pigs, and the imperialist domination of Korea for over 30 years, just to name a few of Japan's atrocities.

[TAIYOWHALE]

Our Japanese military has been falsely accused of fabricated events "Nanking Massacre" "Comfort Women" and "Unit 731". America flamed Japanese military up for several war crimes in order to justify their own inhuman war crimes Hiroshima and Nagasaki). We Japanese can flatly deny the accusation of Americans with hard evidences. Because we Japanese are the race that can search for the truth of history, completely different from Americans. America gave Japan bum-rap.

[TAIYOWHALE]

All 143 pictures that China has been splashing as "Nanking Massacre's photos" all over the media have already been exposed to be either fake or photos not relate to Nanking Incident. There is not photos relate to "Nanking Massacre" in fact. That is to say, there is not evidence at all. We who should understand "testimonies are not evidences" and "testimonies always require credibility in modern society. Nanking Massacre NEVER happened.

[jofirephoenix1250]

Yes, Nanking Massacre never happened, neither did the bombing of tokyo. All those pictures and videos are edited. They are all lies!

[TAIYOWHALE]

Most Japanese are indignant with China for her cowardly propaganda that Imperial Japanese Army massacred 300,000 Chinese people in Nanking of 1937. Nanking Massacre Memorial Hall was opened in 1985. The publication of Iris Chang's "The Rape of Nanking" in America was 1997. What had China been doing for 50 years even though Nanking Massacre is supposed to have happened in 1937. Mao Zedong did NEVER ONCE make any mention of Nanking Massacre in life.

[ltsqx]

are you sick?

[sirrington]

Well all photos of this incident are mabye fake too, so are those tibetian protest ones... why are you denying this if the Massacre Didn't happen then WW2 couldn't of happened anyways japanese civilians weren't there that time go make me disbelieve the fact my friends grand-grandma was raped and killed by a jap in nanjing or was she killed by ET i dunno...

[TAIYOWHALE]

All Americans should kneel on the ground, apologize and ask pardon for their own sins to each Japanese person if you understand you committed mistakes. Americans must apologize to Japan for having flamed Japan for war crimes in order to justify their own inhuman war crimes. Americans think America is the mature democracy, right? All Americans should share responsibility for committing mistakes. Americans should know what true democracy is. All Americans should regret what needs to be regretted.

[airraideagle]

taiyowhale YOU MUST BE JOKING, YOU JAP PIECE OF SHIT.

AMERICA IS THE COUNTRY THAT DROPPED *TWO* NUCLEAR WEAPONS ON JAPAN. AMERICA DOES NOT APOLOGIZE. AMERICA DESTROYS ITS ENEMIES.

NEVER, EVER FORGET THAT, JAP-CUNT.

[farenopusizu]

アメリカを批判すると反日と叫ぶ人間はどうかしている。アメリカ­への幻想を捨てよ！洗脳から覚めろ！アメリカの日本攻撃を回避す­る方法は日本が強くなるしかない。

[gondwana]

Tokyo air raid is true.

But this drama was shit.

The touch of painting is like Korean propaganda painting.

I don't like such sensationalistic drama and paintings.

It's make me sick my stomach.

This drama was characterizing Japanese army as evil.

Anti Japanese business can't be done if Japanese army was hero.

I think this drama was made by anti Japanese christians of Koreans and Americans.

[TAIYOWHALE]

Americans who were brainwashed at American schools tend to think "Attacking Pearl Harbor was sneaky attack". This understanding of history about Attacking Pearl Harbor is only in Americans' brains. Americans who were brainwashed at American schools tend to think "Atomic bombings ended the war". This understanding of history is also only in Americans' brains. The understanding of history distorted to Americans' own liking cannot be shared with rest of the world.

[TAIYOWHALE]

We Japanese give a suggestion to Americans, "You Americans should learn your own history from self-denigrating view more. You Americans must be humble to the rest of the world." The world acknowledges Hiroshima and Nagasaki as Holocaust. Atomic bombings were designed to kill 400,000 innocent and un-armed civilians (children, women and old people) from the very first and America wanted to carry out experiments on human bodies with 2 different type atomic bombs.

[TAIYOWHALE]

Ameirca has NEVER ONCE apologized to Japan for America's atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Instead, America teaches their children how to make lame excuse for "Atomic bombings ended the war and saved countless numbers of lives". This is NOT right historical perspective AT ALL. All Amerinans are HOLOCAUST deniers. All Americans must face up to their own history of HOLOCAUST and must have have a guilty conscience that American ancestors committed HOLOCAUST 62 years ago.

[TAIYOWHALE]

"Atomic bombings ended the war and saved countless numbers of lives"....this is the historical view only in Americans' brains. This Ameicans' historical perspective cannot be shared with rest of the world. This excuse makes about as much sense as saying "America could not win the war against Japan without committing a foul". We Japanese should know that Americans don't any exalted spirit like "Bushi-do". Ameirca has never once apologized to Japan for America's atomic bombings.

[TAIYOWHALE]

All Americans should kneel on the ground, apologize and ask pardon for their own sins to each Japanese person if you understand you committed mistakes. Americans must apologize to Japan for having flamed Japan for war crimes in order to justify their own inhuman war crimes. Americans think America is the mature democracy, right? All Americans should share responsibility for committing mistakes. Americans should know what true democracy is. All Americans should regret what needs to be regretted.

[TAIYOWHALE]

Hundreds of thousands of survivors experienced the devastation of atomic bombings and have been suffering from A-bomb diseases for 62 years since 1945. They are still suffering from A-bomb diseases. Many survivors are suffering from cancer attributed to the effects of radiation from the atom bombs. Damaged DNA by A-bomb's radioactivity have been inherited from generation to generation even after the war. Even generations who have no relation with the war are suffering from A-bomb diseases.

[TAIYOWHALE]

America dropped atomic bombs on 400,000 innocent and un-armed Japanese people "for the purpose of experiment on human bodies hard-heartedly. America deliberately targeted not industrial area but urban area sneakily and dropped 2 different type atomic bombs on non-combatants (civilians). Most victims of atomic bombs were children, women and old people. Most victims were burned alive with heat ray of atomic bombs. They were severely-whole body-burned.

[TAIYOWHALE]

America dropped atomic bombs on 400,000 innocent and un-armed Japanese people "for the purpose of experiment on human bodies hard-heartedly. America deliberately targeted not industrial area but urban area sneakily and dropped 2 different type atomic bombs on non-combatants (civilians). Most victims of atomic bombs were children, women and old people. Most victims were burned alive with heat ray of atomic bombs. They were severely-whole body-burned.

[TAIYOWHALE]

And more, after bombing, many P51 was flying at low altitude and looked for survivers and conducted air strafing with laughing. The victims of Tokyo bombing reached 100,000. Almost of 100,000 victimes were women and children and old people. Slaughtering noncombatant like women and children is called "Genocide". Becuase the slaughter like this is not necessary for the war. This is all too real of Americans. We Japanese NEVER forgive Great Tokyo Air Raids for ever.

[TAIYOWHALE]

A total of 325 B-29 bombers came to Tokyo on May 10 of 1945, and started bombing in the dead hours of the night sneakingly. These B29 bombed targets densely-populated section (Asakusa, Kinshicho, Kameari) of Tokyo not military facilities. The purpose of US' bombing was obviously "GENOCIDE of noncombatant". This bombing continued up to the early morning. The death toll hit 100,000. Most of victims were children, women and old people. America has NEVER ONCE apologized to Japan.

[TAIYOWHALE]

Great Tokyo Air Raids(Mar.10. 1945) US Army carried out an air raid bomber to Tokyo. US Army massacred over 100,000 Japanese noncombatant by Great Tokyo Air Raids. US Army planned to burn Japanese civilians (Japanese women, children and old people) to death massacre from the beginning. US Army developed new type incendiary bombs and made a detailed plan to slaughter Japanese civilians efficiently. This is just unforgivable "GENOCIDE". America ought to apologize for America's GENOCIDE.