"Tokyo was left a charred ruin by incendiary bombing during the last two years of war. This photo, taken 16 August 1945, looks east across the Sumida River to Honjo ward, one of the main working class industrial districts."

From: Sorensen, Andre. The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and planning from Edo to the twenty-first century. New York: Routledge, 2002; 152.