Japan has marked the 70th anniversary of the firebombing of Tokyo by US forces that killed more than 100,000 people during World War Two.
On 10 March, 1945, American B-29 planes rained down bombs destroying large parts of Tokyo.
The death toll was higher than the 70,000 people that died in the Nagasaki atomic bomb attack the same year.
The incident receives relatively little attention in Japan, overshadowed by the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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