By YASUJI NAGAI/ Senior Staff Writer
March 24, 2020 at 07:30 JST
This photo taken in the early morning of March 10, 1945, on the west side of Ryogoku Station in what is now Tokyo’s Sumida Ward depicts members of a neighborhood association who survived the Great Tokyo Air Raid. The late Kiku Kato, fourth from right in the back row, had the young Masahiro strapped to her back. The man, third from right in the front row, is the late Goro Kato. (Provided by Keiji Kato, Goro's oldest son)
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