Ryan Ginstrom wrote:

> "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
> news:BB2B7991.41B4%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
> > On the way home I noticed a poster about a memorial ceremony on the
> > anniversary of Gifu being carpet bombed in WWII. It shows a photograph
> that
> > shows the town leveled as if it were Hiroshima. Anyone know the history of
> > all this?
>
> Contrary to what one might think today, just about every major (and even
> bum-f**ked in the case of Gifu) city outside of Kyoto was pretty much
> flattened by bombing.

Even Fukuyama was carpet bombed, with (they include injuries) a casualty count
of 80,000. Lack of media or public attention and a focus on the A-bombings,
particularly of Hiroshima, has contributed to this ignorance or apathy among
Japanese. Many even forget the Tokyo firebombing.