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For more WORLD NEWS "SUBSCRIBE" US TOKYO: Japan today marked the 70th anniversary of the firebombing of Tokyo by US forces, a night that left an estimated 100,000 people dead in one of the bloodiest episodes of World War II. On the night of March 9-10, 1945, American planes rained incendiary bombs on Tokyo's "Shitamachi" area - an old neighbourhood packed with wooden houses. Tens of thousands of civilians died in the scorching flames, with many more succumbing to horrific injuries over the following days and weeks. The shocking death toll was higher even than the number of people who died in the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki the same year, where approximately 70,000 lives were lost.