Main article:The first raid on Tokyo was the of 18 April 1942, when sixteen were launched from to attack targets including and Tokyo and then fly on to airfields in China. The raid was retaliation against the Japanese. The raid did little damage to Japan's war capability but was a significant propaganda victory for the United States. Launched at longer range than planned when the task force encountered a Japanese, all of the attacking aircraft either crashed or short of the airfields designated for landing. One aircraft landed in the neutral where the crew was interned, but then smuggled over the border into Iran on 11 May 1943.

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Two crews were captured by the Japanese in occupied China. Three crewmen from these groups were later executed. B-29 raids. Aerial view of Tokyo following the warThe key development for the bombing of Japan was the, which had an operational range of 3,250 nautical miles (3,740 mi; 6,020 km) and was capable of attacking at high altitude above 30,000 feet (9,100 m), where enemy defenses were very weak.

Almost 90% of the bombs dropped on the home islands of Japan were delivered by this type of bomber. Once Allied ground forces had captured islands sufficiently close to Japan, airfields were built on those islands (particularly and ) and B-29s could reach Japan for bombing missions.The initial raids were carried out by the operating out of mainland China in under, but these could not reach Tokyo.

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Operations from the commenced in November 1944 after the was activated there.The high-altitude bombing attacks using general-purpose bombs were observed to be ineffective by USAAF leaders due to high winds—later discovered to be the —which carried the bombs off target.Between May and September 1943, bombing trials were conducted on the set-piece target, located at the. These trials demonstrated the effectiveness of against wood-and-paper buildings, and resulted in ordering the bombers to change tactics to utilize these munitions against Japan.The first such raid was against on 4 February 1945. Tokyo was hit by incendiaries on 25 February 1945 when 174 B-29s flew a high altitude raid during daylight hours and destroyed around 643 acres (260 ha) (2.6 km 2) of the snow-covered city, using 453.7 tons of mostly incendiaries with some fragmentation bombs. After this raid, LeMay ordered the B-29 bombers to attack again but at a relatively low altitude of 5,000 to 9,000 ft (1,500 to 2,700 m) and at night, because Japan's anti-aircraft artillery defenses were weakest in this altitude range, and the fighter defenses were ineffective at night. LeMay ordered all defensive guns but the tail gun removed from the B-29s so that the aircraft would be lighter and use less fuel. Operation Meetinghouse.

A residential section Tokyo that was destroyed following Operation Meetinghouse, the firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9/10 March 1945On the night of 9–10 March 1945, 334 B-29s took off to raid with 279 of them dropping 1,665 tons of bombs on Tokyo. The bombs were mostly the 500-pound (230 kg) E-46 which released 38 napalm-carrying at an altitude of 2,000–2,500 ft (610–760 m). The M-69s punched through thin roofing material or landed on the ground; in either case they ignited 3–5 seconds later, throwing out a jet of flaming napalm globs. A lesser number of were also dropped: the M-47 was a 100-pound (45 kg) jelled-gasoline and white phosphorus bomb which ignited upon impact.

In the first two hours of the raid, 226 of the attacking aircraft unloaded their bombs to overwhelm the city's fire defenses. The first B-29s to arrive dropped bombs in a large X pattern centered in Tokyo's densely populated working class district near the docks in both and on the water; later aircraft simply aimed near this flaming X.

The individual fires caused by the bombs joined to create a general, which would have been classified as a but for prevailing winds gusting at 17 to 28 mph (27 to 45 km/h). Approximately 15.8 square miles (4,090 ha) of the city were destroyed and some 100,000 people are estimated to have died.

A grand total of 282 of the 339 B-29s launched for 'Meetinghouse' made it to the target, 27 of which were lost due to being shot down by Japanese air defenses, mechanical failure, or being caught in updrafts caused by the fires. A bird's-eye view of Tokyo before and after the air raidsDamage to Tokyo's heavy industry was slight until firebombing destroyed much of the light industry that was used as an integral source for small machine parts and time-intensive processes. Firebombing also killed or made homeless many workers who had taken part in the war industry. Over 50% of Tokyo's industry was spread out among residential and commercial neighborhoods; firebombing cut the whole city's output in half. The destruction and damage was especially severe in the eastern areas of the city. Emperor 's tour of the destroyed areas of Tokyo in March 1945 was the beginning of his personal involvement in the peace process, culminating in six months later. Casualty estimates.

Charred remains of Japanese civilians after Operation MeetinghouseThe later estimated that nearly 88,000 people died in this one raid, 41,000 were injured, and over a million residents lost their homes. The Tokyo Fire Department estimated a higher toll: 97,000 killed and 125,000 wounded.

The established a figure of 83,793 dead and 40,918 wounded and 286,358 buildings and homes destroyed. Historian put deaths at over 100,000, injuries at a million and homeless residents at a million. These casualty and damage figures could be low; wrote in. The charred body of a woman who was carrying a child on her backThe figure of roughly 100,000 deaths, provided by Japanese and American authorities, both of whom may have had reasons of their own for minimizing the death toll, seems to be arguably low in light of population density, wind conditions, and survivors' accounts. With an average of 103,000 inhabitants per square mile (396 people per hectare) and peak levels as high as 135,000 per square mile (521 people per hectare), the highest density of any industrial city in the world, and with firefighting measures ludicrously inadequate to the task, 15.8 square miles (41 km 2) of Tokyo were destroyed on a night when fierce winds whipped the flames and walls of fire blocked tens of thousands fleeing for their lives.

An estimated 1.5 million people lived in the burned out areas.In his 1968 book, reprinted in 1990, historian cited a figure of 125,000 deaths. Tipton, professor of Japan studies, arrived at a rough range of 75,000 to 200,000 deaths., citing, stated that there were 'at least 100,000' Japanese deaths and 'about one million' injured.The Operation Meetinghouse firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9 March 1945 was the single deadliest air raid of World War II, greater than, as single events. Postwar recovery. Military survey showing bomb-damaged areas of TokyoAfter the war, Tokyo struggled to rebuild. In 1945 and 1946, the city received a share of the national reconstruction budget roughly proportional to its amount of bombing damage (26.6%), but in successive years Tokyo saw its share dwindle. By 1949, Tokyo was given only 10.9% of the budget; at the same time there was runaway inflation devaluing the money. Such as stepped in and drastically cut back on Japanese government rebuilding programs, focusing instead on simply improving roads and transportation.

Tokyo did not experience fast economic growth until the 1950s. Memorials.

Of a citizen. Bombing of Tokyo in World War II, park,.Between 1948 and 1951 the ashes of 105,400 people killed in the attacks on Tokyo were interred in in. A memorial to the raids was opened in the park in March 2001.After the war, Japanese author, a survivor of 10 March 1945 firebombing, helped start a library about the raid in Koto Ward called the. The library contains documents and literature about the raid plus survivor accounts collected by Saotome and the Association to Record the Tokyo Air Raid. Postwar Japanese politics In 2007, Japanese Prime Minister apologized in print, acknowledging Japan's guilt in the and civilians beginning in 1938. He wrote that the Japanese government should have surrendered as soon as losing the war was inevitable, an action that would have prevented Tokyo from being firebombed in March 1945, as well as subsequent bombings of other cities.

In 2013, during his second term as prime minister, Abe's cabinet stated that the raids were 'incompatible with, which is one of the foundations of international law', but also noted that it is difficult to argue that the raids were illegal under the international laws of the time.In 2007, 112 members of the Association for the Bereaved Families of the Victims of the Tokyo Air Raids brought a class action against the Japanese government, demanding an apology and 1.232 billion yen in compensation. Their suit charged that the Japanese government invited the raid by failing to end the war earlier, and then failed to help the civilian victims of the raids while providing considerable support to former military personnel and their families. The plaintiffs' case was dismissed at the first judgement in December 2009, and their appeal was rejected.

The plaintiffs then appealed to the, which rejected their case in May 2013.