This special issue locates the firebombing of Tokyo and Japanese cities within the framework of the growing literature on the bombing of cities and civilians in twentieth century warfare. Bret Fisk and Cary Karacas introduce the issues and their important new website and teaching resource on the ...
This chapter assesses and compares the impact and historical significance of the firebombing and atomic bombing of Japanese cities in the history of both war and disaster. Japan's decision to surrender, pivoting on issues of firebombing and atomic bombing, Soviet entry into the war, and the ...
Further research and writing on the WWII firebombing of Japanese cities – and on the American city comparisons – have been made by military historians, geographers, and others. Several of these are listed in Sources at the end of this story.One offering atSlate.comincludes a series of inter...
Bombs Bursting in Air: State and Citizen Responses to the US Firebombing and Atomic Bombing of Japan The Firebombing Of Tokyo And Other Japanese Cities Improvised Destruction: Arnold, LeMay, and the Firebombing of Japan Inferno : the firebombing of Japan, March 9-August 15, 1945 ...
The later U.S. bombing campaign against mainland Japan was slow to start. The arrival ofB-29Superfortress bombers in 1944 gave the Americans the range to reach Japanese cities, first from bases inChinaand then from Pacific islands. Bombing raids were conducted on the same lines as U.S. ope...
It shows how emerging spaces for the narration of trauma enable the transmission of personal trauma and guilt, and simultaneously engage with what Akagawa calls 'authorised narrative discourse' of the post-war Japanese nation.doi:10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_3Natsuko Akagawa...