Letter from the U.S. Embassy to those whose families died in the bombing of Tokyo
On March 10, 1945, a U.S. military plane dropped a number of bombs on Tokyo.
100,000 people were killed in this bombing of Tokyo.
Six family members of Kayoko Ebina, the wife of a rakugoka who writes an essay, also died at this time.
Ebina, 87, continues to pray for those who died in the bombing of Tokyo.
アメリカ大使館の人が８日、海老名さんの家にヤング臨時代理大使の手紙を届けました
On the 8th, a person from the US Embassy delivered a letter from Chargé d’Affaires Young to Ebina’s house.
In the letter, in Japanese and English, ”I was able to think deeply about the people who died in World War II”.
Thank you. ”
海老名さんは「手紙には驚きました
Ebina said, ”I was surprised at the letter”.
”I’m very happy to be able to convey to Americans my feelings that we shouldn’t go to war. ”
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