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'Eerie' sky, charred bodies: 80 years since Tokyo WWII firestorm On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned humans to ash and Tokyo into a wasteland.Nishio, now about to turn 86, was one...

'The fire was growing while I was watching the sky in fear,' the 88-year-old told @afpfr.bsky.social. 'In our area, it was bright like daytime'

'Eerie' sky, charred bodies: 80 years since Tokyo WWII firestorm. Excellent reporting by my colleagues www.yahoo.com/news/eerie-s...

Hi Lionel, I'm a journalist at AFP news agency in Tokyo (thought it might be easier to contact you on here rather than through the noise on X) - would you have a spare moment to give us a quote for a profile of Masayoshi Son? Thanks. My email is katie.forster(at)afp.com

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