1945-02-01

Tokyo firebreak demolition

Meguro, TokyoTokyo firebreak demolition is a home-front war order record around Meguro, Tokyo, situated in the defeat-endgame phase linking homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics. It belongs to the wider reshaping of military politics and home-front mobilization in Japan.

Other events in this phase

Japanese Imperial Home Front163
  1. First major B-29 raid on Tokyo
  2. B-29 raids on Tokyo begin
  3. Compulsory urban evacuation
  4. Tokyo firebreak demolitionCurrent record
  5. Great Tokyo Air Raid
  6. Tokyo firebombing deepens the government crisis
  7. Osaka air raid
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Wartime Position

the defeat-endgame when homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics converged

Tokyo firebreak demolition is a home-front war order record around Meguro, Tokyo, situated in the defeat-endgame phase linking homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics. It belongs to the wider reshaping of military politics and home-front mobilization in Japan.

Reading The Record

Placed against nearby events, the location, date, and actors around Meguro, Tokyo clarify changes in front lines and governing practice.

Forced building evacuation in Meguro, Tokyo and Showakan Digital Archive · Forced building evacuation in Meguro, Tokyo, 16 April 1945 provide both visual evidence and source context for the event.

Media

Forced building evacuation in Meguro, TokyoVisual recordForced building evacuation in Meguro, TokyoA 16 April 1945 Koyo Ishikawa photograph from Kamimeguro, Meguro shows forced building evacuation: demolition used to create firebreak space against incendiary spread after Tokyo’s air raids. It anchors the geography and surrounding context of “Tokyo firebreak demolition.”

Source Trail

SourceShowakan Digital Archive · Forced building evacuation in Meguro, Tokyo, 16 April 1945Open source