The Tokio Fire Bombing

Historian Herbert p bik writes in hirohito and the making of modern japan, two days after emperor herohito's inspection of bomb damage in the capital. Shitihara had earlier advised foreign minister shigmitsu that the people would gradually get used to being bombed daily. In time, unity and resolve would grow stronger,. this would allow the diplomats room to devise plans for saving the country during unprecedented crisis.