Remembering the Korean victims of the 1945 Tokyo firebombing
Tuesday was the 64th anniversary of the infamous March 10th 1945 firebombing raid that killed 100,000 civilians in Tokyo.
As part of its coverage of the anniversary, N-H-K news included a segment about the Koreans who died in the fires that night:
The woman shown in the video clip is Mrs. Kim, the daughter of a Korean conscript laborer who had been working at shipyards in the Toyosu section of Tokyo at the time of the air raid. Kim traveled to Japan to search for information about her father, who died in the firestorm. However, few records remain from that time, so she has has not been successful in locating the remains of her father. Groups within Japan are trying to make public all available records of Korean laborers who may have died in the air raid, but the exact number of those who died will probably never be known.
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