This is perhaps the hardest photo for a Japanese person to face. In the later stages of the Pacific War, with the fall of strategic islands such as Iwo Jima in Japan, the U.S. air force was launched under the leadership and planning of General Li Mei

This is perhaps the hardest photo for a Japanese person to face.

In the later stages of the Pacific War, with the fall of strategic islands such as Iwo Jima in Japan, the US aviation forces began to use B-29 Air Fortress bombers to carry out strategic bombing of dozens of Japanese cities under the leadership and planning of General Li Mei. Moreover, Li Mei increased the intensity of fire attack according to the characteristics of Japanese architecture mainly wooden structures.

In particular, the two burnings in Tokyo were the most severe. Li Mei used thousands of tons of napalm bombs to burn hundreds of thousands of civilians in Tokyo in one night, leaving millions of civilians homeless.

This is the scene taken by Japanese journalists after the bombing under the Kikukawa Bridge in Tokyo's Sumida District.

Since the whole of Tokyo was set on fire at the time, civilians had nowhere to flee, and the only option was to jump into the river to avoid the flames, so many people were either burned to death or drowned.

Tokyo that night was like a purgatory on earth. The bodies of the dead piled up in layers, almost blocking the river. At the time of this photo, many corpses had already drifted into Tokyo Bay with the river, so the scale of the bodies seemed to be relatively rare.

In December 1937, after the Japanese occupied Nanjing, tens of thousands of innocent civilians were slaughtered with machine guns on the Yangtze River, and the bodies of Nanjing civilians floated on the Yangtze River for several months. At that time, Tokyo, Japan, held a city-wide lantern parade to celebrate the Japanese occupation of Nanjing, and people drank and sang all night.