The Groovy Tokyo Air Raid Map

Seventy i years ago, inward March 1945, over 300 the U.S.A. B-29 bombers dropped around 1,700 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo. The raid killed to a greater extent than than 100,000 Japanese men, women as well as children as well as left over a i G m people homeless. The NHK Nihon Broadcasting Corporation bring marked the 71st anniversary of the Great Tokyo Air Raid amongst a novel interactive map.

The Great Tokyo Air Raid Map includes a disclose of videos from survivors of the air raid. These outset manus witness accounts are plotted on the map inward the districts inward which the participants were living at the fourth dimension of the raid.

The map is inward Japanese solely as well as thence unless you lot beak Japanese you lot in all likelihood won't larn much from the witness videos. However the map too includes shaded areas which dot the areas burned past times the incendiary bombs as well as the evacuation zone. The ruby shaded expanse provides a shockingly clear indication of the destruction caused past times the air raid on Tokyo. You tin too thought the harm caused past times the bombing inward ii archive word reels (accessed via the trivial arrow on the right-hand side of the map).