Editing Bombing of Tokyo (section)

==Memorials==
[[File:Cenotaph-Taito Tokyo at Sumida Park-Bombing of Tokyo in World War II.png|thumb|[[Cenotaph]] for 80,000 [[Death|deceased]] citizens. Bombing of Tokyo during the Pacific War, [[Sumida River|Sumida]] park, [[Taitō, Tokyo]]<ref>{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027031424/https://tokyo-sensai.net/archives/673|title= Approx. 80,000 deaths in down town Tokyo|date=2020-10-27}}
Approx. 80,000 deaths in down town Tokyo in one night on 10, March 1945. Book: [[ISBN]]：4-00-415021-3 Writer: [[Katsumoto Saotome]], [[Publishing| Publish]]: ''Iwanami Shinsho'' ([[:ja:岩波新書|岩波新書]]) (一夜に東京の下町一帯で8万人にのぼる死者)</ref>]]
Between 1948 and 1951 the ashes of 105,400 people killed in the attacks on Tokyo were interred at [[Sumida Ward]] in [[Yokoamicho Park]]. A memorial to the raids was opened in the park in March 2001.<ref>{{harvnb|Karacas|2010|pp=521–523}}</ref> The park maintains a list people who died due to the bombings, made based on applications from the victims' families; this list had 81,273 names as of March 2020.<ref name=list>{{cite web|title=慰霊供養の方 東京空襲犠牲者名簿 登載受付|url=https://tokyoireikyoukai.or.jp/kuyou/meibo.html|access-date=2021-06-05|language=ja|website=都立横網町公園 （ Yokoamichō Park ）|trans-title=Receptionist for registering Tokyo Air Raid Victim List}}</ref> Families who lost members in the bombings can submit applications to the government of [[Tokyo]] to have names of victims added to the list.<ref>{{cite web|title= 東京空襲犠牲者名簿|url= https://www.seikatubunka.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/bunka/bunka_seisaku/0000000662.html|date=2013-01-15|website=東京都生活文化局 |trans-title=Bureau of Citizens and Cultural Affairs, Tokyo Metropolitan Government |access-date=2021-06-07|language=ja}}</ref>

After the war, Japanese author [[Katsumoto Saotome]], a survivor of the 10 March 1945 firebombing, helped start a library about the raid in Koto Ward called the [[Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage]]. The library contains documents and literature about the raid, along with survivor accounts collected by Saotome and the Association to Record the Tokyo Air Raid.<ref>Aukema Justin, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120321054335/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20120320a1.html Author sees parallels between prewar, nuclear indoctrination]", ''[[Japan Times]]'', 20 March 2012, p. 12.</ref>
===Memorials to fallen American crewman===

In addition to the memorials across Japan for the Japanese that were killed during the air raids, there are also memorials created in Japan for American bomber crews that were killed in action.<ref>{{cite web |last=Miyamoto |first=Archie |title=They Bombed Japanese Cities, Yet B-29 Crew Members Are Remembered in Memorials Across Japan |url=https://japan-forward.com/they-bombed-japanese-cities-yet-b-29-crew-members-are-remembered-in-memorials-across-japan/ |website=JAPAN Forward |date=November 28, 2019 |access-date=May 18, 2025}}</ref> One such memorial is in [[Higashimurayama, Tokyo]], that commemorates the eleven American crewmen who were killed when their [[B-29]] crashed on April 2, 1945.  A local farmer, whose land upon which the plane crashed, sought out the families of the fallen crewmen after the war and built a memorial in the form of a Heiwa Kannon Buddhist statue.<ref>{{cite web |last=Shimaoka |first=Masaharu |title=THE STORY OF PEACE KUWANNON STATUE in HIGASHIMURAYMA, TOKYO JAPAN |url=https://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~shimaoka/kuwannon.pdf |language=en |format=PDF |access-date=May 18, 2025}}</ref><ref>On-site descriptive signage at the Heiwa Kannon statue, Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan ({{coord|35.7738|N|139.4961|E}}). Accessed May 18, 2025.</ref>
[[File:Higashimurayama-HeiwaKannon-B29Memorial-Site.jpg|thumb|Heiwa Kannon B29 Crash Site Memorial]]