> So why wasn't it Tokyo or Osaka? Presumably because of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_1945) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombi

> So why wasn't it Tokyo or Osaka? Presumably because of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_1945) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_1... and ... can't find the corresponding wikipedia page, but Osaka, Nagoya and Kobe were fire-bombed shortly after. The fire-bombing of Kobe is probably what wad depicted in the animation movie Grave of the fireflies. This is not talked about much, but led to more deaths than both Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined...