It has been 76 years in 10 days since the bombing of Tokyo, which is said to have killed about 100,000 people.


A letter was found accompanied by a diploma that was supposedly sent by a teacher at a national school at the time, who was affected by the air raid and was unable to hold a graduation ceremony.


The feelings of thinking about children are spelled out, and experts say, "I want you to think about war with valuable materials that know what happened between the teacher and the child."

Before dawn on March 10, 1945, the downtown area of ​​Tokyo was devastated by the American air raid, and it is said that burning bullets attacked people and towns one after another, killing about 100,000 people.



It is said that school graduation ceremonies were rarely held in the affected areas.



The diploma found this time was kept at the home of Ms. Yukiko Masaki (88), a graduate of the Kayaba National School in 1945 in Sumida Ward, Tokyo.

The diploma states that it will be March 25, 1945, which is the date after the bombing of Tokyo on March 10, and the graduation ceremony is scheduled for this day if children and schools are not damaged. You can see that.



After the air raid, Masaki evacuated to Chiba prefecture in a group and was led by a young female teacher with the surname "Kurihara".



The diploma is accompanied by a letter written by Dr. Kurihara, which is believed to be one of the ones he sent with his diploma to a student whose address was known.

The date of the letter is April 9, about a month after the air raid, and

words such as


"How are you?"


"I'll send you a diploma late.

" "I'm


worried about what

happened to

Mr. Akiko."


Is spelled out.



In addition, it was revealed in the complicated heart that


I was

wondering whether I would go to Iwate prefecture with an evacuation or stay in Tokyo,

"I am still not clear whether I will go to Iwate or stay in Tokyo. But when I want to meet you again, I want to stay in Tokyo


. "

About Mr. Kurihara Mr. Masaki was scared when he was told that "ghosts and fireballs would come out" at the temple where he was evacuated, and he took me to the children who couldn't go to the bathroom at night. He remembers desperately thinking about what to eat.



After reading the letter, Mr. Masaki said, "I don't remember exactly when and how I got my diploma. But I realized again how much the teacher thought about us. I was on my back in an air raid. I was injured, so I may have been particularly worried. "

Mr. Hoshi Ishibashi, a curator of the Sumida Heritage Museum who received the donation, said, "I thought that the graduation ceremony of this year was rarely held in the disaster area, and the diploma was burned down and does not exist. I was surprised that the diploma still existed and was delivered to him. I want the children to think about the war with valuable materials that know what happened between the teacher and the children at that time. " I will.