How U.S. bombing surveys helped city in Japan grasp civilian sentiments of WWII
Years of work by a late historian in Tochigi Prefecture's Utsunomiya has shed light on lesser-known impacts of the war on Japanese civilians.
In Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, a woman named Tomomi Narusawa discovered a collection of materials and notes from her late father's research on the war. Narusawa, a 56-year-old nursing educator, had no prior knowledge of her father's work, but as a child, she often noticed him studying an English-Japanese dictionary. The materials, uncovered during a recent cleaning of her father's belongings, shed light on the city's experience during World War II.
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