article_snippet: Around 104,500 people died in the attack, making the Matsuya department store in Tokyo the deadliest conventional air raid ever, worse than Nagasaki and on par with Hiroshima.
article_snippet: From January 1944 to August 1945, the U.S. dropped 157,000 tons of bombs on Japanese cities, according to the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey .
article_snippet: From January 1944 to August 1945, the U.S. dropped 157,000 tons of bombs on Japanese cities, according to the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey.
article_snippet: It estimated that 333,000 people were killed in total, including the 80,000 killed in the August 6 Hiroshima atomic-bomb attack and 40,000 at Nagasaki three days later.
article_snippet: The Matsuya Asakusa department store days after the bombing campaign saw 2,000 tonnes of explosives dropped on Tokyo .
article_snippet: American warplanes targeted a 16 square mile area across the Japanese capital, killing 104,500 civilians, making it the deadliest conventional air raid ever.
article_snippet: From January 1944 to August 1945, the U.S. dropped 157,000 tons of bombs on Japanese cities, according to the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey.
article_snippet: the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey estimated that 333,000 people were killed, including the 80,000 killed in the August 6 Hiroshima atomic-bomb attack and 40,000 at Nagasaki three days later.